A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden ...

INTRODUCTION Egyptologists have made one cardinal mistake by including human beings with white complexions as Pharaohs in ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study ...