the region where the world's earliest known civilization developed that's now modern-day Iraq. Highly educated scribes created the distinctive wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets.

In a finding that bridges ancient mythology with historical cartography, the British Museum’s analysis of a 3,000-year-old ...

A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said. Found near ...