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

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use ... of the first form of ...

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 ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle ... who went on a twenty-year quest to decipher the ancient script cuneiform.

Additionally, they aim to compare these findings with cuneiform inscriptions from the time, hoping to correlate written records with physical evidence. This comparison could provide new insights into ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia ... mainly from indirect evidence such as cuneiform tablets. Now, though, researchers ...