More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

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

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt  said all the critical functions of the Department of Education will remain ...

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

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...