This discovery sheds light on the political and economic significance of the ancient site of Garan on the western borders of Elamite civilization. According to ISNA, the findings were reported during ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Additional information from Finding ...

“We unearthed arrays of important objects such as over 1,000 clay seals while conducting an urgent excavation on an archaeological hill in Kermanshah province,” IRNA quoted archaeologist Shokouh ...

Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks. Part I. Imagining Elam: the history of research and its sources. Aelam regio : Elam in Western scholarship from the ...

Widely implemented in the ancient Middle East, cuneiform, which means “wedge-shaped,” has been a writing model since the early 18th century onward. Britannica noted this framework was the most ...

Linguist and historian Filippo Pedron takes us inside the world of Elamite, a forgotten language, and shares how fragments of clay tablets are helping reconstruct a civilization’s voice. Filippo ...

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. New ...