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 ...

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

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

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...