The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians were the first to establish cities, write a language, and create art.

The oldest examples of writing, discovered in modern-day Iraq, began as pictorial symbols and eventually evolved into the complex cuneiform script based on the Sumerian language. As we embrace the ...

The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where cuneiform script was developed. Egyptians were also developing hieroglyphic writing around ...

the Sumerian script on Cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia was from around 5,000 years ago – similar writing forms took place in the Indus Valley and China, and so, he said, writing has only been ...

The show found a temporary home at the museum largely thanks to the inspiration and practical endeavor of Oded Halahmy, an 86 ...

There is evidence that the Indus Valley Civilisation had strong commercial relations with the contemporary Mesopotamian Civilisation, whose cuneiform script was deciphered ... differed from those of ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...