Across the ancient southern Levant, some cylinder seals carried inscriptions that looked like cuneiform but could not be ...

In 1922, a British archaeologist named Herbert Weld Blundell was excavating the ruins of Larsa, an ancient city in what is now southern Iraq. Digging through the dust of Mesopotamia, his team ...

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased in clay envelopes.

New research has revealed that the first kiss in recorded history took place at least 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamian societies.

A hymn praising the city of Babylon and its people, silent for more than a thousand years, has been reconstructed from broken ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve uncovered fresh clues that could solve one of history’s most famous mysteries. No, not the ...

Omar Badawi A historical and intellectual journey awaits visitors to “Arabic Language: Twenty-Eight Letters of Light,” an ...

Stiola represents the second installment in the Keramos exhibition series, which Al-Masry initiated in January 2024. The ...

Cuneiform. Ancient inscription, old sumerian writing carving on... Cuneiform. Ancient inscription, old sumerian writing carving on stone or clay tiles, number symbol and babylonian language ...

Abstract: Motivated by the challenges of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) community, we develop digital tools for processing cuneiform script being a 3D script imprinted into clay ...

While our standard numbering system (1-10) is maybe simpler when it comes to everyday numbers, when it comes to larger numbers it is quite flawed. The Sumerians, long before the foundations of western ...