Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft ... cuneiform was an early form or writing used but the ancient Mesopotamians. It was a combination of wedge ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization ... of writing in southern Iraq, far less is known about literacy in northern Mesopotamian ...

Mesopotamia, known as the cradle of civilization, is celebrated for its ancient cities ... Clues such as the presence of writing and monumental architecture support this hypothesis, further increasing ...