They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

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 ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

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

This Sumerian cuneiform tablet showed that workers were sometimes paid in beer. It wasn’t just a drink; beer was a vital source of nutrition for ancient workers. This quirky discovery gives us ...

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

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Her new book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History takes readers on a journey in time through what has been able to be read from bricks and tablets found at ... first form ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite ... as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts. An innovative digital ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite ... as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts. This tool is now ...