Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze ...

But these tablets weren’t strictly business—they also contained literature that lives on today, including the The Epic of ...

The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus ...

Many of the world’s earliest archives and libraries were destroyed thousands of years ago, leaving behind only fragments of ...

What if I told you that the core principles driving blockchain technology were actually explored over 5,000 years ago? Not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the dusty archives of ancient ...

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that reads less like royal propaganda and more like a household errand. Inscribed in cuneiform, the tiny slab records a ...

Mesopotamian clay maps, dating back 5,000 years, provide a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world’s perception of geography, particularly its rivers. These clay tablets not only depict the ...

A 2,648-year-old "clay tablet" with only women's names written on it in the ruins of an Assyrian-era palace at the Ickale Museum Complex in Sur district of Diyarbakir, Türkiye, August 6, 2024. (IHA ...

A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic pride.

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