Nineveh Laboratories

Not "inspired by"
ancient wisdom.
Decoded from it.

The medical texts of ancient Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, contain the most extensive botanical formularies ever recorded in clay. Cuneiform scholars have spent generations deciphering them. We have spent years turning three of those formulas into products you can take today.

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Cuneiform clay tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal, ancient Nineveh

Library of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh · c. 650 BCE · The oldest known library in the world

The Formulas

Four products.
4,000 years of documentation.

Coming Soon

ú.ZI · anzanzaru

Black Seed
Powder

Nigella sativa at maximum clinical dose. Cold-ground black seed standardised to 3% thymoquinone — the concentration established across peer-reviewed trials as the therapeutically active threshold. Each sachet delivers 500mg of black seed extract alongside Zinc and Vitamin D3, precisely matched to the ancient Assyrian preparation recovered from the Library of Ashurbanipal.

  • 500mg Black Seed Extract · 3% Thymoquinone
  • Zinc 10mg · 100% NRV
  • Vitamin D3 25μg · 500% NRV
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inarātu · DINGIR.šim

Frankincense

Boswellia serrata resin, recorded across Assyrian medical texts as the "divine fragrant herb." Cold-processed. Single-source.

kurkuma · filfil aswad

Black Pepper + Turmeric

Curcumin activated by piperine, the combination documented across both Mesopotamian and classical botanical traditions. As the texts intended.

ú.ZI · anzanzaru

Black Seed Oil

Nigella sativa, the herb the Mesopotamian scribes called anzanzaru. Prescribed in more cuneiform formularies than almost any other botanical. Cold-pressed. Nothing added.

All formulas are halal friendly, kosher friendly, and vegan friendly.

The Source

Ancient Nineveh.
Modern formulation.

Buried beneath the ruins of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, archaeologists uncovered tens of thousands of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script. Among them: a medical corpus of extraordinary depth.

The tablets document plant compounds, preparation methods, and therapeutic applications recorded by Assyrian physicians more than 5,000 years ago. Nineveh Laboratories was built on a single question: what if those formulas could be made available now?

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Cuneiform medical text from the Library of Ashurbanipal
5,000 Years of documented botanical use
30,000 Cuneiform tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal
3 Formulas available today

The Standard

What separates Nineveh
from every other brand.

Primary source formulation

Every product traces to a documented cuneiform botanical record. Not "inspired by ancient wisdom." Grounded in the actual texts. The Archive documents our working.

Single-source ingredients

We know where each ingredient comes from. One origin. One standard. If we can't source the correct species to the quality the tablet text describes, we don't make the product.

Scholarly transparency

We document our sources openly and acknowledge where the historical record is ambiguous. The Nineveh method is not a marketing claim. It is a methodology.

Nothing added

No fillers. No binders. No bulking agents. The formula contains exactly what the cuneiform text describes. The form is the message.

Supplements

Ancient formulas.
Precisely dosed.

Decoded from 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets. Rigorously sourced, transparently dosed, and grounded in published research.

In Development

Future formulation
design.

The cuneiform corpus contains hundreds of documented botanical compounds. We are working through them. Chewable formats and a new capsule range are in formulation, rooted in the same archaeological rigour.

We're going back 5,000 years, reading cuneiform tablets and redefining what tablets look like. Ancient ingredients, backed by modern research, delivered in a form fit for today.

The Film

Cosmetics

Skin formulas
from the archive.

The same cuneiform corpus that informed our supplements documented preparations for the skin. We are building a cosmetics range rooted in the same archaeological rigour.

In Development

Food & Botanicals

Nourishment
decoded.

Ancient Mesopotamia documented not just medicine, but food as medicine. Our botanicals range will bring these preparations: adaptogens, ritual foods, and functional ingredients, in modern form.

In Development

The App

Your formula.
In your pocket.

Track your rituals, explore the cuneiform archive, and receive personalised guidance rooted in 5,000 years of botanical knowledge.

In Development
Rabbit in an open field, a symbol of the natural world we protect

Our Commitment

A portion of every sale
goes to charity.

A portion of every Nineveh sale is devoted to charity, honouring an ancient tradition of giving that is as old as the land from which this brand draws its name.

Animal welfare

Our ancestors did not rely on the suffering of animals to understand the healing power of plants. They observed, documented, and refined their knowledge across millennia through patience, wisdom, and reverence for all living things. We carry that spirit forward. A share of our earnings funds the effort to end animal testing in modern science, because progress should never come at the cost of compassion.

Orphan welfare

A share goes to orphan welfare, because every child deserves shelter, nourishment, and the chance to thrive. We believe that nurturing the next generation is both a duty and a blessing.

As Nineveh grows, so will our giving. More causes will be embraced, more lives touched, for we measure our success not only by what we build, but by what we give back.

The Journal

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