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

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

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

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

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

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

Joshua talks about how he finds his stories, the amount of research that went into the book, the challenge to make the story accessible, what original writing was like, how the growth of cities led to ...

It originated in Sumer (present-day Iraq) and was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets, later being transcribed onto papyrus. The poem revolves around a hero’s quest for immortality.

Talbot, who had no prior experience with Assyrian texts, became intrigued by the cuneiform inscriptions and offered to independently translate a set of tablets. His fresh perspective was crucial in ...

Although Trump ultimately didn’t use the script verbatim, he nonetheless slipped into his role as car salesman as he got into the driver’s seat of a Tesla. Trump Plays Tesla Car Salesman as ...

Ever since, the Indus script has resisted attempted decipherments ... where there was a trilingual inscription in old Persian cuneiform, Elamite, and Sumerian. Risking his life, Rawlinson managed ...