The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

BCE, an ancient accountant recorded an order for more than 200 wooden tables, chairs, and stools. How do we know this? From a tiny tablet with cuneiform writing discovered in southern Turkey. Although ...

We often take written language for granted– whether it’s texting, reading a book, or scrolling through social media, it’s a part of everyday life. But imagine a time when there were no books, no ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

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

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

Zaatar W Zeit, the F&B space from Lebanon in operation since 1999, made its foray into Mumbai at Pali Naka over the weekend.

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

A few years ago, archaeologists stumbled upon something truly one-of-a-kind at the Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) site: a board game.