Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

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

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, with scholars dedicating years to deciphering individual tablets. You needed a ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of ... "When you go back to the ancient world, there's a huge variability in the character ...

The conventional history of writing dates its emergence to Proto-Cuneiform tablets used in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Tokens of differing sizes and shapes were used to record quantities of ...

Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and consists of ... “When you go back to the ancient world, there’s a huge variability in the character ...