Italian archaeologists working at the sanctuary of Tas-Silg on Malta have discovered an agate fragment with a Middle Babylonian cuneiform inscription dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century B.C ...

Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

Five Nobel Peace laureates—King, Obama, Chief Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama—have all cited Gandhi as an ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...

A 3,000-year-old map found at The British Museum could lead us to the real resting place of Noah’s Ark, with clues hidden in ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

A clay fragment no larger than a postcard sat untouched in a Baghdad storeroom for ages. Now its words sing again, thanks to artificial intelligence that stitched it to 30 other scattered fragments ...

A long-lost hymn of praise dating back to around 1000 BCE has been identified through modern technology. Professor Enrique Jiménez of LMU uncovered the text and linked it to 30 additional manuscripts ...