With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of ...

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

"Cyprus kept its old Bronze Age system [of writing] for well over a thousand ... which may have influenced Mesopotamian cuneiform. The proto-Sinaitic script was widely thought to be the oldest ...