“AI can make inscriptions much easier to read and analyze, but historical interpretation will remain a scholarly task,” said Dominik L. Michels, an associate professor of Computer Science at King ...

Delve into the world's earliest writing systems, exploring diverse origins beyond cuneiform. Uncover how ancient ...

Before email, before the printing press, before the alphabet you’re reading right now — there was cuneiform. Pressed into wet clay with a sharpened reed, these wedge-shaped marks became humanity’s ...

Ancient Roman bookshops reveal how books were written, copied, sold and corrected, tracing the evolution of writing from clay ...

Clay tablets unearthed in central Turkey describe an epidemic that killed children, a royal family’s fears for an infant princess and generals pleading for reinforcements some 3,400 years ago, the ...

The clay fragment was discovered at the former capital of the Hittite Empire in Turkey, where researchers spent about a year studying its ancient inscription ...

New Ur III cuneiform tablets from the Iraq Museum reveal a royal princess’s estate, new place names, mobile labor and a ...

Babylonian schools taught students about gods, rituals, and proper conduct as part of their training for religious and elite ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...

Biblical scholar Dan McClellan argues on The Joe Rogan Experience that the Bible is a heavily edited library of documents written by human beings ...

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods.

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