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

Baghdad (iraqiNews.com) – Originating in Bashiqa, a special “Mesopotamia Heritage truck” has been traveling around Nineveh Governorate for the past year, delivering essential historical ...

Participants gained hands-on experience in mosaic art, glass etching, sculpture, painting, and engraving ancient Cuneiform script. They also drew famous Mesopotamian landmarks including the ...

But there is much more. The written legacy of ancient Mesopotamia is inscribed in the cuneiform script on clay tablets. Cuneiform tablets and fragments began to be discovered in large numbers in the ...

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… ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

you should have deciphered an undeciphered script, like Jean-François Champollion (the founder of Egyptology, who decoded the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs), Henry Rawlinson (who gave us the key to ...

A word, for example, may be spelled color ... ancient insights are hidden in the 500,000 cuneiform documents written thousands of years ago? Now, by leveraging the power of modern technology to decode ...