Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

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

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and director of the Girsu Project, said he has ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

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 ... s oldest form of writing, the tablets ...

OpenAI has trained a new AI model that is "really good" at creative writing, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. He fed the model a prompt to "write a metafictional literary short story about AI ...

“Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia ... inscribed with cuneiform – an early writing system. These tablets document various ...

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. Their rivalry became a race to achieve what ...