ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

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

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

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

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British Museum Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent In southern Iraq ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide. Fired clay brick stamped with the name ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s recent announcement of a $1million prize for anyone deciphering the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) has renewed popular interest in the language ...

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 ...