Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...
A chance discovery in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Kish has provided a new and valuable piece for understanding the ...
The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...
SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...
Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known to ...
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What is the Voynich manuscript?

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.
Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...
A stone fragment bearing ancient carvings in Hittite style and one of the world's earliest writing systems, cuneiform, has been uncovered in a cave deep in the Moravian Karst. The discovery of this ...
Damascus,12. Dec (SANA) The Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums announced that precise scientific examinations conducted by specialized experts on 33 cuneiform tablets, initially believed ...