As experts in Akkadian writing were rare, most of the artifacts were simply left in storage at the museum. Over the next decade, Smith pored over them, perfecting his understanding of ancient ...

For many decades, the British Museum has held tablets that have only ... and Akkad was once the capital of the Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon the Great, a ruler known for conquering ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets ... few scholars can read the languages on the tablets—which include Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite—the overwhelming majority remain ...