The Anunnaki are some of the most misunderstood figures from ancient Mesopotamian mythology. In this video, we explore who they really were according to Sumerian and Akkadian texts—and how modern ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

"This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the plates in ...

A Sumerian code has been deciphered, revealing "divinely inspired" building instructions A Sumerian “sacred code” has been deciphered, revealing divinely inspired building instructions echoed in the ...

Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Founded in 1947 by the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JCS) ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fermented cereal beverage enjoyed by Sumerians, so-called Sumerian beer, may have been ...