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

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 Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of ...

Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient ... the economic structure and state system of the Late Bronze Age," said Mehmet Ersoy, Turkey's minister of culture ...

Writing and trade have an ... recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper is a key ingredient in the very bronze the age was named for, it's no surprise that business ...