Babylonians were using advanced geometry over 3,700 years ago. Their clay tablet, Si.427, reveals a world of surprising ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 ...

New discoveries at an ancient city in Iraq, including written tablets and a game board, may shed light on its hidden history.

The Mesopotamian civilisation, which arose around 3400 BC, was one of the earliest urban civilisations. It was situated ...

Spadoni, an associate professor of history at UCF, and a team of researchers made the new discoveries during field work at ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

This writing system eventually evolved into the cuneiform ... The tablet is part of the larger collection of early Mesopotamian inscriptions, and scholars are still working to understand the ...

The 2,800-year-old temple of Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing, was destroyed by IS jihadists ...

While cuneiform is considered the world’s oldest writing system, having emerged before 3400 BCE in Mesopotamia, it is neither an alphabet nor a language but rather a set of characters denoting ...