With the cuneiform inscriptions and the prophets Professor Lyon completed yesterday the course of public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of five venues to host the U.S. tour of the famed Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th-century artifact discovered in 1879 among the ruins of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamia ...

Monday night, hordes of ghosts and witches will take to area streets, demanding tribute in return for their good will. Halloween’s annual candy-grab may seem like a modern tradition, but the ideas ...

If you were asked to describe how you think a curator of cuneiform tablets at the British Museum might look, you’d probably come up with an image very close to that of Dr Irving Finkel – bearded, ...