Archaeologists have recently uncovered the first substantial group of cuneiform administrative tablets found in the greater Erbil region. The site also contains evidence of large-scale destruction, ...

Part of a cretulae used to secure containers. (Universita di Pisa) A team of Italian and Iraqi archaeologists has unearthed hundreds of cuneiform tablets in central Iraq. They also uncovered some clay ...

Ancient civilizations encoded spiritual warnings in texts that shaped empires, governed kings, and guided souls through death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and when ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

This first quote represents the beginning of the Epic of Gilgamesh as known from the 19th century onwards. The following one shows the text fully restored, in the form it achieved over 100 years later ...

Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor. Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are ...