Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy. Ancient Mesopotamian maths was based on 60, which is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour This tablet ...

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.

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.