These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Scholars have deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, revealing ancient beliefs linking lunar eclipses to ominous events.
It should help us preserve these priceless texts for the future.
Ancient cultures have always associated epilepsy with some religious intervention.
The Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq uncovered 20 new lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the nearly 3000 years old Mesopotamian ...
Tablet with numeric signs and script. From Teppe Sialk, Susa, Uruk period (3200 BC to 2700 BC). Department of Oriental ...
Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, is the oldest attested written language - the code for the cuneiform writing system. Texts written in ...