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 ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

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.

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 20, 2025 shows a view of the Kaman-Kalehoyuk Archaeological Museum in Kirsehir province, Trkiye. (Photo by Safar ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

They range in date from c.2500 BC to c.500 BC and were written in the ancient Akkadian (Babylonian) language in cuneiform script. This vital post-excavation work to analyse and interpret these ...

It was suggested by the mention, in KD’s article titled ‘A long view of constitution making’, of the name of an ancient Akkadian language narrative poem: ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’, which is considered ...

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside ...