Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

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 ...

Joshua talks about how he finds his stories, the amount of research that went into the book, the challenge to make the story accessible, what original writing was like, how the growth of cities led to ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

Talbot, who had no prior experience with Assyrian texts, became intrigued by the cuneiform inscriptions and offered to independently translate a set of tablets. His fresh perspective was crucial in ...

Ever since, the Indus script has resisted attempted decipherments ... where there was a trilingual inscription in old Persian cuneiform, Elamite, and Sumerian. Risking his life, Rawlinson managed ...