A horizontal zigzag frieze wraps itself around the Praça do Comércio’s facade. It is intersected with downward-pointing ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

In ancient Mesopotamia, bulls were powerful symbols ... Their images appear on seals and artifacts, representing divine blessing and agricultural prosperity. Sacrifices involving bulls were ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering ... British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and director of the ...

A clay seal featuring an impression of the Akkadian ... will once again bring to light the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, achievements that time could neither ...

The seal made no mention of her husband ... His discoveries had profound repercussions for the way that ancient Mesopotamia was, and is, regarded. The complexity of the site, presence of royal ...

But these objects, no larger than a cup, are imbued with a profound significance. Cylinder seals in the pre-Columbian world, much like their Mesopotamian counterparts, were more than just tools; they ...

Archaeological finds of Harappan seals in Mesopotamia and Mesopotamian seals in Harappan sites have established that trade between the two seas, Arabian and Mediterranean, was established via the ...

Cylinder seals first appeared in Mesopotamia around the mid-4th millennium BC and spread through trade to other regions, including Anatolia. The Seyitömer discovery highlights how these early trade ...

typically indicating prosperity or fulfilment and especially common on seals from the Achaemenid Empire. The Achaemenids, like the other empires of the Near East, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia, were ...

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time ...