Language Death—The Case of Akkadian
February 2022 | Vol. 10.2 By Johannes Hackl The phenomenon of language death is as old as the recorded history of the world’s languages, if not as old as language itself. Languag
Were There Sumerians?
February 2022 | Vol. 10.2 By Paul Collins The Sumerians can seem very familiar. They have been understood as a distinct people, speaking a common language, who occupied the alluvia
Contacts Between the Cuneiform Cultures and India
Cultures of Mesopotamia and Western Iran were in contact with the Indian world for millennia. But while elephants were moved from India to Mesopotamia, it is still difficult to est
From Nippur to Ground Zero
All cuneiform tablets take a journey from the Mesopotamian past to the global present. Only a few were in a Customs Service vault at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
The Current State of Ugaritic Studies
The coastal Syrian city of Ugarit was only discovered in 1929. Since then it has been the most important source for tablets that reveal the history and culture of the late second m