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.
Tag: mesopotamia
3,200-year-old Mesopotamian tablets of Assyrian warriors haunted by ghosts document the earliest known cases of PTSD
The specters of war have haunted soldiers since humans first waged war on one another.
Mesopotamian bricks help scientists map Earth’s magnetic field changes
New tool could help scientists better date artefacts that they previously couldn’t.
2,700-year-old rock carvings tell the story of Nineveh, the wondrous Assyrian city you’ve never heard of
Nineveh was one of the most remarkable urban centers in ancient Mesopotamia.
Drone maps show one of the first cities in Mesopotamia was like an ancient Venice
The urban settlement didn’t have a city center or a surrounding defensive wall, but it had an interesting peculiarity.
Oldest example of applied geometry found in 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet
The tablet shows that ancient Babylonians used Pythagorean triples to survey plots of land a thousand years before Pythagoras was ...
