Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...