Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

according to scholars who recently made breakthroughs in translating cuneiform tablets housed at the British Museum in London. “Imagine you’re [an ancient] farmer—you’re out there ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally solved a long ... likely bringing ...

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JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form of wedges, the Latin word for which ...

An ancient game board ... The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the University of Central ...

Board game, clay tablets and building remains shed light on the ancient city of Qabra and its cultural identity.