as it was looted and burned by invaders from Babylon and Media during the fall of the Assyrian Empire. Cuneiform, the writing system used on many of the discovered artifacts, is considered to be ...

The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early ...