A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in ...

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

Sumerian beer — more like cloudy porridge ... from clay tablets inscribed with one of humanity’s earliest writing systems: cuneiform. And what they tell us is that the ancients drank brew ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around ... One of the world’s first great works of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in cuneiform. This form of ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example, 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 ...

And before all that— A Sumerian with dirt under his nails, bent over a wet clay tablet, tracing symbols that shimmered with meaning before they dried into silence. It was not merely writing.

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

This Sumerian cuneiform tablet showed that workers were ... contains what may be the first complete sentence in Egyptian writing. The inscription on this seal talks about Seth-Peribsen’s choice ...

Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium B.C., while the earliest known writing system in the Americas is the Olmec script, from about 600 B.C. But none of these early ...