The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

Joshua Hammer’s book about cuneiform, a writing system that defined the pre-Hellenic world as much as its monuments did, is a ...

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

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

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

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...