So the script didn’t require us to compose anything new. In 2019, I also worked for the film “ Godzilla: King of the Monsters ” translating a song into Babylonian for the soundtrack.

The Harappans traded with Sumerians but did not adopt cuneiform script. The Harappan script is probably a set of emojis – maybe logographic – though some scholars challenge this. On seals, it was ...

Baghdad (iraqiNews.com) – Originating in Bashiqa, a special “Mesopotamia Heritage truck” has been traveling around Nineveh Governorate for the past year, delivering essential historical ...

Humans Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, found on seals, was likely used for trade and administration rather than ...

Alphabets might be 500 years older than previously believed, according to a recently published study by a Johns Hopkins University archaeologist. During a 2004 dig of a tomb in the ancient city of ...

Neither hieroglyphics nor cuneiform were alphabets in the modern sense, relying instead on symbols and syllables. The first alphabet is thought to be the Proto-Sinaitic script, discovered in 1904 in ...

Researchers studying the roots of writing have highlighted the role of ancient trade symbols found on cylinder seals in Mesopotamia as key influencers of early script development. A recent study by ...

Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...

One important early key to deciphering the script proved to be the discovery of a kind of cuneiform Rosetta Stone, a circa 500 B.C. trilingual inscription at the site of Bisitun Pass in Iran.