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

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Antiquity (2025). Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, providing new insights into how early ...

Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation canals up to 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) long carved into the landscape near Basra in Iraq, which at the time was the Eridu region of Mesopotamia.

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history ... This settlement has long been written off as a failed backwater, but new evidence suggested it flourished even as the Roman ...

Jaafar Jotheri, lead author of the study, posted on X that all the canals were connected to the ancient Euphrates and ... in the Euphrates floodplain and in Mesopotamia more broadly.” ...