Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

World’s Oldest Recipes of Making Broth, Pie and Stew Detailed in Babylonian Cuneiform, Surprise Experts Like the present-day ...

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 ...

The 10th-generation Apple iPad, the latest model of Apple’s entry-level tablet, is highlighted in our list of the best iPads as the top mid-range iPad because of its modern design, the switch to ...

This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform ...

Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer complaint we know of ... written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper is a ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern ... written scripts around 3000 BC in the form of wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets. This cuneiform script was also adapted and ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform ... with Assyria via freshly uncovered clay tablets that had outlasted its mud-brick buildings ...

This is important because there are up to 500,000 cuneiform tablets that have been discovered but are yet to be read or translated. Some may contain ancient wisdom and legends as historic as the Epic ...