THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...
In the third millennium BCE, Sumer fell to its northern neighbor, Akkad, which adopted cuneiform as a writing system and continued to conquer great swaths of Mesopotamia to create, what some consider, ...
Marchand, Suzanne 2021. Finding Truths among the “Lies”: Fact-Checking Herodotus’s Egypt in the Long Eighteenth Century. History of Humanities, Vol. 6, Issue. 1, p. 269.
In particular, her project investigates the fictionalization of distant locations, places that were at the edges of Mesopotamia's worldview and, though known to be real, were given fantastical ...