The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.

The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

A new linguistic study has revealed that the European Huns, including their famous leader Attila, were not Turkic in origin as once believed, but instead spoke an ancient Siberian language. This ...

Over time, Akkadian developed into dialects such as Babylonian and Assyrian. Although it eventually disappeared around 100 CE, replaced by languages like Aramaic, its impact still lives on.

The origin of language is one of the most complex and debated topics in linguistics and anthropology. Scholars believe that spoken language emerged anywhere between 50,000 to 150,000 years ago.

John Daniel Bing, UT associate Professor Emeritus, age 87, of Knoxville, TN died Tuesday, February 18, 2025. He was born to Burnett Joseph and ...

Citing Britannica, University of Oxford, Berlitz, and other sources, this article uncovers some of the oldest languages in the world, featuring extinct languages, like Sumerian and Akkadian, and ...

The oldest languages and the importance of writing According to the British Library, the invention of full writing systems seems to have occurred independently in at least four distinct instances. The ...

The research team, led by Professor Saana Svärd from the University of Helsinki, analyzed nearly one million words in Akkadian, a Semitic language used in Mesopotamia between 934 and 612 BCE. These ...

Levy began taking Akkadian with Susanne Paulus, an associate professor of Assyriology and curator of ISAC's collection of thousands of cuneiform tablets. At the same time, she took another class with ...