The Kurdish village of Bassetki is where an Akkadian statue of a god-king named Naram-Sin was found in 1975, and the researchers behind this new discovery think that this site could have been an ...

The copper head of an Akkadian king, four millennia old. Gone. Golden bowls and colossal statues. Gone. Ancient manuscripts and bejeweled lyres. All gone. Art experts around the world joined the ...

Statue of Idrimi; akklove: Akkadian Love Literature; Contributions Amarna; CKST: Corpus of Kassite Sumerian Texts; Glass: Corpus of Glass Technological Texts; LaOCOST: Law and Order: Cuneiform Online ...

Well that title seems to go to the Akkadian Empire, the first known multinational empire in the world. The Akkadian Empire existed for a short time between 2334-2218 BCE, and was founded by Sargon ...

In February, an online video emerged showing ISIS militants storming the Nineveh Museum in Mosul, Iraq, destroying several priceless ancient Assyrian and Akkadian statues and artifacts.

Akkadian cuneiform script from the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery archives. The Ernst Herzfeld papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian ...