Participants gained hands-on experience in mosaic art, glass etching, sculpture, painting, and engraving ancient Cuneiform script. They also drew famous Mesopotamian landmarks including the ...

45 lines of a royal decree issued by Cyrus were impressed into its surface in cuneiform. The decree pours scorn on the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus, for his impiety toward Marduk, patron god of ...

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically weakening—and it could help provide the first observational evidence ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again? The Phaistos Disk: though undeciphered, the enigmatic disc repeats certain ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform, after the Latin for “wedge”—fell out of use. How three Victorians brought Assyria’s ...

Human urine that has been matured in the sun for at least one month appears to be both a fertiliser and an effective pesticide. The findings could be particularly helpful for combatting insect ...