"Akkadian is a very important language ... systems used to document several ancient dialects, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Aramaic, and Old Persian. The oldest surviving literary ...

In Georgia, an ancient tablet was found to have 60 characters that do not belong to any known language ... and Middle Persian ...

But if there wasn't a language in common, ancient people would have turned to an interpreter. Translation in ancient societies wasn’t as formal as it is today, and interpreters who could speak Greek, ...

Drawing from previous successful decipherments like the Rosetta Stone and ancient Persian cuneiform script, the team pieced together the underlying language and writing system. The royal name ...

near the Persian Gulf. The text was written in Akkadian, using cuneiform script. It was a language commonly used by the Babylonians, along with other ancient kingdoms in the Middle East.

when the Persian Gulf became part of global maritime trade across the ancient world. Magan was once the name for a region that now encompasses the UAE and Oman. Magan boats were large and strong ...

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons ... In East Africa, Persian customs never came to dominate. Instead, most foreign influences — language, architecture, fashion, arts — were ...