A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about 3350-3000BC. Now, experts have linked early cuneiform ...

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 ...

Australian researchers create a new data storage technique that uses nanometer precision to store data in ternary format.

A team of researchers at Flinders University has adopted a cuneiform-inspired concept to develop a cutting-edge method for storing bits and bytes on a futuristic, polymer-based ...