Dr. Irving Finkel, assistant keeper of ancient Mesopotamian Script at the British Museum, will discuss how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time; and reveal how the ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its enduring legacy.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have ...

I found the article “Cracking the code”, on the use of AI to read the ancient Mesopotamian script cuneiform, extremely interesting (6 August, p 40). It has got me wondering if such AI could be used, ...

Ancient writing systems tell stories of forgotten civilizations and lost knowledge. Their decipherment often requires decades of scholarly work, combining linguistics, archaeology, and historical ...