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

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint ... and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods.

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform ... writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues. The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay ...

There is no definitive answer to this. Alongside the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform writing is the world's oldest known writing system that can be deciphered. The earliest Mesopotamian clay ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age found in the region. Cuneiform is a writing system from ancient times. The findings support the idea that the excavation ...

A clay artifact ... originated in about 3200 B.C., while Sumerian cuneiform seems to be from about the same time. Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium B.C., while ...

A student from ancient Sumer (modern ... the second-largest collection of cuneiform tablets in the UK, including some of the earliest known examples of writing. They offer a rare insight into ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in cuneiform clay tablets, as well as ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. Over time, the symbols became ...