Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

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

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 ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

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

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

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

Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became the cradle of civilization due to its fertile land and the development of irrigation, which supported the growth of city-states like Ur ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China to ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China ...