The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

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Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient ... reconstructed several times throughout its history. This pattern of architectural evolution ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...