However, Schwartz, who shared details about the cylinders at an annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research in the fall of 2024, believes that the alphabetic writing is of a ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

This object is a spindle whorl, a counterweight used in spinning spindles, dating back to the 1st century BC. This finding is significant because it represents one of the earliest examples of ...