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

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

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

writing, and the 60 minute clock are all thought to have been invented by the Sumerians. The 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient ...