An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

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

Well, this most ancient document – like all its neighbours in the British Museum – deserves more than a quick glance. It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world ...

In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in ...

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

Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

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 ...