Reading the Tanach, the Hebrew Bible, is tough. For one thing, it’s very, very old, and not refracting the text through our 21st-century prism is difficult. For another, it’s written in two odd ...

One of the better performing action movies of this past season, The Scorpion King was similar to the genre films of the 1980s -- An unabashed roller coaster thrill ride with little substance. Nothing ...

I grew up hearing the Code of Hammurabi read out loud, in Akkadian, at the dining-room table. I did not know that my graduate-student mother was one of Akkadian’s few regular readers. The language of ...

Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...

Experts from Tel Aviv University and Ariel University have created a program to translate an ancient language that is difficult to decipher, allowing automatic and accurate translation from cuneiform ...

AN ADVANCED civilisation that ruled large swathes of the Middle East 4,000 years ago may have been wiped out by a spot of bad weather. The Akkadian Empire flourished during the Bronze Age and new ...

The Scorpion King proves that the name of a popular movie and even the likeness of its star aren't nearly enough to make an otherwise bland game seem enjoyable. The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian ...