The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

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 ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia ... this context gave birth to proto-cuneiform, the first iteration of a writing system comprising hundreds of pictographic signs.

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 ...

found in the ruins of Nimrud (present-day Iraq). These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets ...

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...

She notes the difficulties of learning Sumerian , the world's first known language, written in the intricate cuneiform script. In her chapter on leadership, she notes that further evidence for ...