The Rosetta Stone is a slab of ancient stone that bears identical text inscribed in three different writing systems: ...

Explore the origins of the first written texts, from ancient hymns to the Epic of Gilgamesh—humanity's earliest literary ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...

Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, learning, and record-keeping were drastically simplified. We track its rich ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. A discovery in ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...

"But we can say furniture—a lot of furniture." This relic most certainly belongs to an archive of cuneiform tablets unearthed nearly a century ago by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, who was ...