Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

The Babylonian map consists of a circular map. Along with that, there are a few pieces of text written in an an ...

Cuneiform is the world’s oldest known form of writing. It was characterized by distinct, often wedge-shaped gouges cut into ...

Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

Dr Irving Finkelm, British Museum researcher, said in a video on its YouTube channel: "The double ring is very important because it has cuneiform writing in it which says 'bitter river' and this ...

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In fact, you can immerse yourself in the ancient world right here in your own backyard at the University of Saskatchewan’s ...

The Sumerians are credited for several of the most fundamental human inventions: the wheel, large-scale architecture, and the earliest writing system—cuneiform. In the third millennium BCE, Sumer fell ...

As I read There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, I wished there was such a thing as reverse pathetic fallacy. Much of ...

This cuneiform tablet found at the Alalah excavation ... Lauinger and Türker began peering through microscopes at the writing after the Alalah excavation’s conservator cleaned the clay item ...

The limited edition of ten pieces celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Meisterstück writing instrument with a tribute to ...