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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson might have been right when he claimed that “Language is but a poor bull’s eye lantern wherewith to ...

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

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

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

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

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

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

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

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