From the ruins of the last Sumerian kingdom, a ruthless generation of warlords carved a fragmented and war-torn Mesopotamia into rival dynasties, but one man among them, Shamshi-Adad, would forge ...

Linguists used Akkadian writing on bilingual cuneiform tablets from Iraq to translate the text in Amorite, an unknown language, study said. Rudolf H. Mayr Photo from the Rosen Collection used with ...