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

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

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

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

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

Arsenal should avoid signing Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike this summer because he is not ready to be the main man at a club chasing the Premier League title. That's according to Emmanuel ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example, originated in about 3200 B.C., while Sumerian cuneiform seems to be from about the same time. Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium B ...

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 ...

Comparing the canal designs with descriptions from ancient cuneiform texts could provide even more insight into agricultural management in Mesopotamia. Reference: “Identifying the preserved network of ...

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 ...