Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the seasons and weather to know when to plant and harvest their crops.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

One of the challenges posed by cuneiform was determining whether a ... afforded by the book is watching decipherers at work. For example, it was common for an ancient text to glorify the reigning ...

It’s true that radiocarbon dating can’t definitively prove that the earliest Proto-Cuneiform tablets found at Uruk are the oldest examples of writing on earth. The Proto-Elamite tablets were mostly ...

For example, during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt ... where there was a trilingual inscription in old Persian cuneiform, Elamite, and Sumerian. Risking his life, Rawlinson managed to climb ...

I am anticipating a deluge of angry letters from people listing off important persons named Elimelech that I’ve ignored, but the truth remains that despite the continued use of that personal name si ...

These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols ... “Among the many examples for concrete imperial control is the use of the newly imposed standard system of measures, the so-called ...