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

Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, ...

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… ...

Earlier this spring, Altman, the OpenAI C.E.O., tweeted twelve hundred words of machine-generated text: output from an OpenAI model that, he wrote, was “good at creative writing.” The text had ...

The US’ new tariff regime is a complete repudiation of the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) principle, one of the cornerstones of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) multilateral trading system ...

The video showed a Walnut Grove staff member writing the N-word on a board at the front of a classroom. “That should never be brought up in a classroom, like ever,” Adrienna Wyatt told Channel ...

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Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, 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 ...

“This year’s theme is celebratory, celebrating the festival’s history, Irish writing and Galway,” says Cúirt’s director, Manuela Moser, who took over the role in 2022. “Although the ...

That system is on the cusp of huge change, for both political and technological reasons. The weaponisation of the dollar-based financial system — note how the US has cut off access by ...

What is Cuneiform Cuneiform is a writing system from Mesopotamia that rivals hieroglyphs in its antiquity. Ancient documents penned in cuneiform include everything from mundane business records to the ...