Researchers used artificial intelligence to piece together a 250-line hymn celebrating ancient Babylon’s architecture, ...

The government of Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the cryptic script of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). Chief Minister M.K. Stalin ...

Sumerian holds the title of being the first known written language. Found on clay tablets using cuneiform script, it gave birth to the idea of recoreded knowledge.

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, ...

Though the script has remained unsolved since its earliest samples were published in 1875, we do know a little about Indus Valley culture itself – thanks to archaeological excavations of major ...

Though the script has remained unsolved since its earliest samples were published in 1875, we do know a little about Indus Valley culture itself – thanks to archaeological excavations of major ...

Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script By Emily Wilson 12 February 2025 ...

The roots of the Indus Valley Civilisation can be traced back to 7,000 BCE. Over the next three millennia, thousands of Indus settlements comprising cities, towns, craft-centric and ...

Books and reading can change your life, said Abraham Verghese, eminent physician and author, most recently, of ‘The Covenant of Water’. Dr Verghese delivered the inaugural address at the 13th ...

Dr. Verghese said that if you think about it, while human beings have been around for perhaps a million plus years, the first recorded writing script, the Sumerian script on Cuneiform tablets from ...

It’s important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between pre-writing symbols used to mark objects and more precise marks that establish ...

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 ...