The Sumerians, Maya and other ancient cultures created texts that have lasted hundreds and even thousands of years. Here's what they can teach us about crafting an immortal message.

A Sumerian tablet bears a religious text. It was created using cuneiform, the world’s first writing system. Sumerian cuneiform spread across much of the Bronze Age Middle East.

The Sumerian civilisation was the world’s first, inventing writing, numerical systems, bureaucracy and the state, and texts from the 3rd millennium BC provide details of a particularly cultured ...

A 4,000-year-old Sumerian proverb about a dog that walks into a tavern has left scholars and thousands of online commenters scratching their heads. The joke’s meaning has been lost, but finding ...