In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

The Ashmolean Museum's collection is now more accessible than ever. The museum's website highlights that the ongoing digitization of its Babylonian cuneiform tablets is helping preserve these ancient ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting, which features three humans and a pig, dates back to 50,000 years. However, cave paintings illustrate scenes rather than ...

A clay tablet from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) is the oldest known case of a written customer complaint. In the detailed message, a man named Nanni griped to ...

A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq.

This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. The story appears in podcast feeds under the title, "Jokes, Part I: Sumer Funny, Sumer Not." Listen to part two here.

A piece of an ancient clay tablet found in Greece may have something to say about the written word and the people who produced it. Discovered last summer by a St. Louis archeological team that's been ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...