Experts are busy decoding the clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform that were discovered in an Assyrian palace in southeastern Turkey last summer. “You’re really getting at the nitty gritty of the management of the empire through these kind of records,” commented Melinda Zeder of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The Independent, […]

 What could be the sacred temple of Naylamp, the legendary first ruler of Peru’s Lambayeque civilization, has been uncovered, according to Carlos Wester La Torre, director of the Brüning Museum. Here’s more information on the Minoan-style paintings discovered at Israel’s Tel Kabri.   Stone slabs that once covered graves were found near the roof of a […]