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

For example, an ancient granite mace head introduces ... Other chapters explore cuneiform script (the world’s first known writing), cities, leadership, education (including some of the earliest ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors experience the Louvre in a truly personal way—through the art of food. Here's ...

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 ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, it was home to feuding tribes who called themselves the Luwians, according to cuneiform tablets ... were classic examples of ancient drywall masonry, but where Greeks ...

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 ...