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Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

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appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 94. Revill died March 11 at a care facility in ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late ... alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts. An innovative digital tool has been offering researchers and students ...

They date back to when Girsu, one of the world's oldest cities, was under the control of the Akkad dynasty from 2300 to 2150BC ... These are the spreadsheets of empire, the very first material ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

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