Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

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

In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human ...

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Among Schliemann’s most outstanding achievements was – alongside the identification ... that use of the two-handed drinking ...

will once again bring to light the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, achievements that time could neither overcome nor conceal.” Girsu, Rey says, is one of the ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

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The A Thousand Blows star said that Cooper’s success had been the show’s “biggest achievement”, with the youngster now set to star as the young Heathcliff in forthcoming film Wuthering ...

The findings reveal the surprising existence of a highly detailed and extensive bureaucratic system in ancient Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago. The discovered clay tablets represent the state archives ...