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

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

A clay seal featuring an impression of the Akkadian ... will once again bring to light the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, achievements that time could neither ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world. In the 19th Century, ...

Nothing validates my parenting quite like discovering an ancient Mesopotamian teen’s clay tablet complaint that could have been written yesterday—minus the effort of carving it into actual stone.

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing ... The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared ...

The conventional history of writing dates its emergence to Proto-Cuneiform tablets used in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Tokens of differing sizes and shapes were used to record quantities of ...

“The clay tablet has major implications for the ... built the Mitanni Kingdom in an area stretching from present-day Syria to northern Mesopotamia. The kingdom, which thrived roughly from ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft Word ... It was a combination of wedge shaped forms and usually written on a clay tablet) Using MS Word, they ...