A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...

And of course, I always strive to avoid making the same mistakes myself. Take, for example, the word acronym. These days, it’s casually thrown around to describe nearly any abbreviation we see ...

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 ...

In most civilisations, writing was invented chiefly for documenting information related to commerce. For example, the Proto-Cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, written on clay tablets, kept a ...

The arrest of a British couple in Afghanistan was a “clear example of the Taliban’s alarming lawlessness”, a former US ambassador to the war-ravaged country has said. Peter and Barbie ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping the world in ways we never imagined. From healthcare to creative arts, AI models are transforming industries with their capabilities. However, a fundamental ...

Go is a programming language built to resemble a simplified version of the C programming language. It compiles at the machine level. Go was created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and ...