The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

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

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

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

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

and a letter in which his sister berates his wife for her poor cuneiform. The Library of Ancient Wisdom is out now in the UK and will be published on 12 May in the US. Embark on a captivating ...