A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the ...

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

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

BCE, an ancient accountant recorded an order for more than 200 wooden tables, chairs, and stools. How do we know this? From a tiny tablet with cuneiform writing discovered in southern Turkey. Although ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Zaatar W Zeit, the F&B space from Lebanon in operation since 1999, made its foray into Mumbai at Pali Naka over the weekend.

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...