Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

A poetic text nearly 3,000 years old has just resurfaced, bringing back to life a voice lost since antiquity. A Babylonian ...

Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

The full hymn was scattered among fragmented pieces of clay tablet, but using an AI program, experts were able to piece together the ancient song.

Researchers used artificial intelligence to piece together a 250-line hymn celebrating ancient Babylon’s architecture, ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Enrique Jiménez of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has succeeded in ...

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, ...

The mystery of cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, remained unsolved for centuries. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century, driven by groundbreaking discoveries in Mesopotamia, that a ...

Mysterious artifacts like Bolivia’s Fuente Magna and Peru’s Candelabra hint at ancient cross-cultural exchanges, revealing a world far more interconnected than previously believed.

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system distinguished by wedge-shaped marks made into clay. It developed over 5,000 years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia. At its height it was used to write languages ...