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

(Photo: Cuneiform Digital Library)[/caption] What it tells us is that Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia was socially stratified in large cities with complex civilisation and centralised governments.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

More importantly, Sumerians are credited with inventing the wheel around 2500 BC. Mesopotamians are noted for developing one of the first written scripts around 3000 BC in the form of wedge-shaped ...

In the arid desert of southern Iraq, the remains of one of the world’s oldest cities can be found. This is Eridu, created by the gods as the starting point of civilization in Sumerian mythology.

Baghdad (iraqiNews.com) – Originating in Bashiqa, a special “Mesopotamia Heritage truck” has been traveling around Nineveh Governorate for the past year, delivering essential historical ...

But there is much more. The written legacy of ancient Mesopotamia is inscribed in the cuneiform script on clay tablets. Cuneiform tablets and fragments began to be discovered in large numbers in the ...

The Sumerians likely bartered palm ... was damaged in Baghdad’s NationalMuseum during looting there in April. Numerous cuneiform tablets relate tales, such as that of the great flood, that ...

This Sumerian cuneiform tablet showed that workers were sometimes paid in beer. It wasn’t just a drink; beer was a vital source of nutrition for ancient workers. This quirky discovery gives us ...

A mobile "Heritage Vehicle" toured 22 areas in Nineveh, Iraq, offering youth workshops on Cuneiform, Ziggurat drawing, Iraqi ...