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

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which ... expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

He explains their writing system, using a reed to scratch marks ... We discover some of the reasons why the Sumer eventually died out. This clip is from the series Lost Lands.

On a late-summer day in 1856 ... once and for all, whether the oldest writing system in the world could be deciphered. However esoteric this might sound, the question was the subject of intense ...