Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform, after the Latin for “wedge”—fell out of use. How three Victorians brought ...

Scholars had only recently succeeded in cracking the code to the region's history: the complex cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script in which most of the ancient Mesopotamian texts were written.

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

Numerous cuneiform tablets relate tales ... and goddesses that were believed to control every aspect of life. In the Mesopotamian world, the gods owned the cities, and humans did their bidding ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform ... 1840s and ’50s is the subject of “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” Joshua Hammer’s ...