Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world. In the 19th Century, ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 11, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; With a Memoir (Continued) (1849), pp. 1-192 ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.