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

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

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

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 ...

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

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

The Roman cookbook Apicius, formally titled De Re Coquinaria (“On the Subject of Cooking”), is the most complete surviving culinary text from the ancient world. Compiled in Latin, it is traditionally ...

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 ...

Cuneiform Lives on in the Poetry of Assyrian Poet Syriac Press Posted 2025-07-23 01:22 GMT Dunya Mikhail MICHIGAN -- In her latest poetry collection "The Tablets: Secrets of the Clay", Chaldean-Syriac ...

Among their many innovations, the Sumerians pioneered cuneiform, or wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets, representing numbers up to 60 in a base 10 sequence of increasing stylus strokes.

The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia invented writing around 3300 BC, using the cuneiform script — it was written by pressing wedge-shaped marks known as cuneiform into clay tablets. This was ...