Assyrian cylinder seal from the late ninth to seventh centuries B.C.E., made of chalcedony and inscribed with a cultic scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, which was closed since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reopened its museum and gardens today with a new ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform tablets found, and an aerial view of Fayadia District, Iraq. Photo: Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and ...

In their paper, “Exploring Geomagnetic Variations in Ancient Mesopotamia,” researchers Matthew D. Howland, Lisa Tauxu, Shai Gordin, and Erez Ben-Yosef studied 32 bricks currently held in the Slemani ...

"The essays published in this volume were first presented at a symposium celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the ...

Sarah Kielt Costello, associate professor of art history at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, focuses on early Mesopotamian and Cypriot art and archaeology.Together with Karen Polinger Foster and ...