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

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... who invented writing at the end of the fourth millennium BC”.

It can be seen as being in dialogue with the Latin writing. Latin, too, is a sleeping language. These rewarding but often tough exchanges were conducted in the awareness of important initiatives ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous warnings, including one that prophesies, “a king will die.” According to a ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia ... the decipherment of the Akkadian language and the ...

Also featuring The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom and Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World by Kathryn Hurlock. By Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger, Finn McRedmond and Megan Gibson ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people ... Their language, which was not written down but can be partly reconstructed ...