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Assyria's Lost Queens Were Buried With a Great Gold Treasure to Rival Tutankhamun (opens the original)
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That changed dramatically beneath the floors of the Northwest Palace at Nimrud in northern Iraq. Iraqi archaeologists working there in the late 1980s uncovered a series of royal burials containing the remains and possessions of Assyrian queens, surrounded by extraordinary gold jewelry, precious stones, vessels, seals and ornaments that had survived for roughly 2,700 years. The discovery ranks among the richest archaeological finds ever made in the ancient Near East. The University of Chicago's I
Did Assyrians Invent the Telescope 2,700 Years Ago? (opens the original)
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The possibility sounds extraordinary. The earliest documented telescope is generally associated with the Netherlands in 1608, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey sought a patent for an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. Yet the Nimrud Lens was manufactured between about 750 and 710 BC, more than two millennia earlier. That enormous chronological gap has helped turn a small archaeological artifact into one of the most debated objects in the history of ancient optics. The evidenc
Fake Cuneiform Seals As Status Symbol (opens the original)
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A new study suggests they used the visual authority of writing itself, turning unreadable signs into markers of status, cultural connection, and power. A new study published in Levant by Jana Mynářová of Charles University examines 13 cylinder seals from the southern Levant bearing genuine cuneiform and pseudo-cuneiform inscriptions. Spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age, the group shows how the appearance of writing could work as a social signal long after, or even without, its linguis
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