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

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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 ...

a clay prism with accounts of Ashurbanipal’s military campaigns; and a letter in which his sister berates his wife for her poor cuneiform. The Library of Ancient Wisdom is out now in the UK and ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New York Mets starting pitcher Clay Holmes throws during the first inning of a spring training baseball game ...

Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In his first spring start since being named Opening Day starter for the Mets, Clay Holmes got closer to looking the part in 4 ¹/₃ innings on Saturday in a 4-1 loss to ...