Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

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

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a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.

Sir — The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel is an unpardonable offence. Basel Adra, one of the directors of ...