Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

In recent study, Asst. Prof. Jana Matuszak publishes fully translated cuneiform tablet—the first narrative featuring Sumerian ...

Archaeological findings from the city-states that arose in ancient Mesopotamia offer sometimes surprisingly clear glimpses of ...

The pious king: royal patronage of temples, Caroline Waerzeggers -- 35. Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk, Philippe Clancier Summary "The cuneiform ...

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life ...

A 4,000-year-old tax receipt is among the treasures on display at the State Library of Victoria's annual World of the Book ...

Discover the world's oldest surviving books, including The Pyramid Texts, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Rigveda. Explore ...