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

Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked 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.

It features several paragraphs of cuneiform text—the world’s oldest form of writing, predating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—on both sides of the clay. Before damage, the tablet showed ...

The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East before ... Mundi by scientists who say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a double ring marking ...

It first appeared around 3350 to 3000 BC in the city of Uruk, in modern southern Iraq ... trade of goods using tags, numerical tablets, tokens and clay balls called bullae. Researchers have ...