With a flick of a switch, the lights on the projector came on accompanied by a sharp intake of breath from the assembled crowd at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The 3,000-year old Assyrian stone ...

Archaeologists have found an ancient tomb carved into bedrock beneath an unassuming courtyard in Turkey. Discovered in the yard of a house in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, the one-chamber ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The innovative multi-task neural network ...

In the domain of ancient Mesopotamian art, the reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II's palace reign supreme. These monumental creations, though dispersed far and wide by Henry Austen Layard, possess a curious ...

The shifting sand dunes and barren terrain of the Saudi Arabian desert are beautiful in itself, but hidden amongst them are remnants of some of the oldest civilizations in human history. And ...