"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn - a ...

The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.

The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

The Harappans traded with Sumerians but did not adopt cuneiform script. The Harappan script is probably a set of emojis – maybe logographic – though some scholars challenge this. On seals, it was ...

Linear B tablet. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The birth of the Greek alphabet The Greek alphabet was inspired by the Phoenician script, a consonant-only system developed by ...

For example, the Proto-Cuneiform script, Linear A script and Cretan Hieroglyphs mainly used ideograms (meaning symbols) and logograms (word symbols). Before the invention of writing, Mesopotamians ...

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system distinguished by wedge-shaped marks made into clay. It developed over 5,000 years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia. At its height it was used to write languages ...

The symbols did not resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, the main writing systems used in the Near East during the Early Bronze Age. Schwartz did, however, note that several of ...

While cuneiform is considered the world’s oldest writing system, having emerged before 3400 BCE in Mesopotamia, it is neither an alphabet nor a language but rather a set of characters denoting ...

The clay tablet written in cuneiform script detailed infertility and a solution for the inability of a person to reproduce through natural ways, as published in the journal Gynecological Endocrinology ...

Until now, it was widely believed to have emerged around 1900 BCE in what is now Egypt. A recent discovery in Syria, however, suggests that the alphabet’s origin may date back an additional 500 years.

Writing began “during the late 4th millennium BCE, around 3200 BCE,” he said, noting that there were two early writing systems: one in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia, known as cuneiform, that ...