Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

The Indus Valley script has baffled experts for over a century, its meaning lost to time. Now, the Indian government is ...

The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...

A tantalizing $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can crack one of history’s most elusive puzzles: the Indus ...

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.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

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 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 ...

First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the Sumerian city of Girsu in modern-day Iraq ... However, they’re inscribed in different languages, with one bearing cuneiform, and the other ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Sumerian cuneiform writing. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Another ancient language originated in Egypt. It boasts a rich history of written language ...