In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform ... clay tablets that had outlasted its mud-brick buildings by thousands of years.

Scholars had only recently succeeded in cracking the code to the region's history: the complex cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script in which ... he saw clay-brick houses whose style he recognized ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle ...

Other chapters explore cuneiform script (the world’s first known writing), cities, leadership, education (including some of the earliest doodles by bored students), early scientific developments ...

Pirates fans have flooded KDKA-TV's emails, wanting to know where their Bucco Bricks went. Thousands of the commemorative bricks just outside PNC Park were removed early this year during renovations.

INNOCSR, a Korean company leading the way in sustainable construction technology, has officially inaugurated a Good brick factory in Thatta, near Karachi, Pakistan. The factory marks a significant ...

For decades, supporters purchased engraved bricks lining the stadium's walkways as permanent tributes. "It was a bit of a bummer walking past the Wagner statue and seeing plain gray sidewalks ...

The Pirates' front office unveiled plans to get the fans involved in construction of PNC Park brick by brick. Fans can buy bucko bricks and have their names engraved on them. This baseball park is ...

The fallout continues over the Bucco Bricks not returning to the sidewalk outside the Pirates' PNC Park. As we first reported, the messages and names will be part of a new display, but the ...