The CBI has submitted a fourth supplementary chargesheet in connection with DHFL-Yes Bank deal and highlights the role of Sumer Buildcorp Pvt Ltd and its partners, who owe Yes Bank Rs 475 crore by ...

“The cuneiform writing system, which is slightly later than proto, is fully deciphered, we can read it,” says Ferrara. “It records the Sumerian language.” The researchers looked for — and found — ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...

New research traces Mesopotamia origins of writing back to trade symbols. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 Researchers have found the origins of writing and explained that the world’s oldest ...

Study authors explained that stamp seals were used on clay for administrative purposes from the late seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia. “Shared seal imagery ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

The Sumerians, who lived about a hundred miles inland from the Persian Gulf in modern-day Iraq, were the first to employ the Mesopotamia wheel in carts and then chariots. The first chariots built in ...

Even after his mummy was discovered in 1922, we still don’t know the cause of the young king’s death. Some working theories include genetic diseases stemming from his inbred parentage; a chariot ...