Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

Her new book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History takes ... media because of her fascinating translations of the first form of writing known as cuneiform.

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu ... The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over 4,000 ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at ... uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...