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

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 ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

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 ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

It was found that the markings on the tablet followed the cuneiform script. The ancient script which originated in the Middle East was used to create many languages like Sumerian and Akkadian.

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform ...

The artifacts—three ceramic cones bearing cuneiform inscriptions ... They appeared to him to have come from ancient Mesopotamia, and to have been produced by various cultures between the ...