Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ...

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 ...

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

the wife of Uriah the Hittite—but the Hittite capital of Hattusa was leveled and the Hittites’ cuneiform language, a Bronze Age lingua franca, fell into disuse. The Babylonian and Assyrian ...

"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 ...