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

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

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

The mystery of cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system ... moment in the history of ancient language studies, forever changing our understanding of Mesopotamian civilizations.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings.

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian ... script—known as cuneiform, after ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems ... These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record the affairs of the state, ...