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Historian Fred Donner offers a new reading of an old story.

A 90-year project illuminates an ancient culture.

A 90-year project chronicling the ancient Akkadian language culminates in the 21st volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.

Japan's claustrophobic commuter rail system operates with human and technological precision.