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

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

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous warnings, including one that prophesies, “a king will die.” According to a ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

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

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

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

An estimated 500,000 cuneiform tablets sit in museums ... "At the base of our research is the aim to increase the ancient sources available to us by tenfold," said co-author Yoram Cohen, professor ...

One of the two clay tablets is 4.5cm high and dates from around 3,000 BC. The other measures 3.2 cm and originates from the Irin/Eridu region in southern Iraq. It dates from 1,900-1,700 BC.

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...