A question was proposed, answerable only by "yes" or "no". Thus, in March 651BC, Ashurbanipal, at war with his brother, asked, "Will the Elamites join the war?" "The entrails were always checked by ...

Written from right to left, the script is unlike any other ancient scripts; while the proto-Elamites appear to have borrowed the idea for a written language from their Mesopotamian contemporaries ...

It is March 27, 669 BC, and night has fallen over Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. On the temple roof, Balasi, chief astrologer to king Esarhaddon, is scanning the sky. An adviser has told the king ...