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A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

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

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A history of the peasant way of life, a book from one of Italy’s foremost feminists, a study of ancient wisdom of Mesopotamia ...

Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

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A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

In 2020, the Elamite-language cuneiform specialist Gian Pietro Basello joined them, enticed by access to new texts. To help prepare their findings, they brought in Gianni Marchesi, an Italian scholar ...

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