In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

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

The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years ...

The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years ...

In its simplified nature, the writing system had about 90 unique symbols. 7. Hittite Cuneiform - 1700 BCE . Much like its predecessors, the Hittite Cuneiform adopted Akkadian Cuneiform, borrowing ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...

In addition, the Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system, which defines time and seconds, because the cuneiform writing they used had a way of writing numbers from 1 to 59.