An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

Sir — The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel is an unpardonable offence. Basel Adra, one of the directors of ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use to look back in time. And what ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...