A recent analysis of one million words of the ancient Akkadian language revealed that people in ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet. The details were revealed by ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.—a ...

DATE: ca. 350–50 B.C. LANGUAGE: Akkadian. Today, the ability to read cuneiform is the key to understanding all manner of cultural activities in the ancient Near East—from determining what was ...

2020. “Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics.” In Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop-Raduà (eds.) The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Culture and ...

Some of the artefacts have been contributed by the British Museum. One of the artefacts on display shows ancient Akkadian script on a tablet while another shares images of archers on a limestone ...

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, pp. 88-116. Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén. 2021. “Fear in Akkadian ...