In her latest poetry collection "The Tablets: Secrets of the Clay", Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian poet Dunya Mikhail resurrects ...

A team of researchers has deciphered an ancient clay tablet that reveals a previously unknown myth from Sumerian mythology, ...

Cuneiform script and Sumerian writing. When people living in southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) toward the end of the 4th millennium BC created documents by inscribing cuneiform characters ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq.

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

Sadly, the cuneiform script has not been translated and the general improbability of this entire proposition kind of just makes the whole thing quite a bummer. Regardless, you can now forgive all ...

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about 3350-3000BC.

The script is often tiny—almost too small to see with ... copied and recopied Sumerian literary works. By 1600 BC, no Sumerian speakers were alive, but cuneiform was still used for another ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fermented cereal beverage enjoyed by Sumerians, so-called Sumerian beer, may have been ...