Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

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

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

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft Word. In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

It was he who had made the decisive breakthrough in the decipherment of cuneiform writing; 50 years of age ... who had no direct expertise in Mesopotamian studies and left the supervision of ...