A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

A few years ago, fishermen in the Dmanisi municipality of Georgia discovered a stone tablet inscribed with a mysterious language —a script that has the potential to upend the history of ancient ...

4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from ...

21 ancient curse tablets — at least one referencing a Roman deity — were discovered in an ancient cemetery in France, researchers said.

WASHINGTON — It was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago. Now, a 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Middle Eastern king is finally headed back to ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC. The ...