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

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

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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 Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the US. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact. Trump ...

Cuneiform arose about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq. It is one of four known pristine languages - writing systems with no known influences from any other. Some translated ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge - especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted into 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use artificial ...

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.

Good writing is the product of proper training, much practice, and hard work. The following remarks, though they will not guarantee a top quality paper, should help you determine where best to direct ...