It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world ... medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic) languages could ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have ...

Many of the fragments bore cuneiform hieroglyphs ... with ambitious plans to write a series of books on Assyrian and Babylonian history and culture. He had left Iraq, moreover, vowing never ...