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

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.

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets ... No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, ...

About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets ... No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, ...

UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest ...

On today’s episode of Good on Paper, I’m joined by Andrea Matranga, an economist whose recent paper “The Ant and the ...

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Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

Findings indicate the wheel evolved due to mining environment challenges, akin to selective pressures in biological evolution ...

According to preliminary assumptions, the first samples of wheels date back to about 4000 BC in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, ...