It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have decoded it. Curator Irving Finkel says that the cuneiform writing on the tablet tells of the ancient Babylonians' beliefs and ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

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This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...