Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to ...

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Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an Egyptian tomb site dating to between 4,495 and 4,880 years ago.

In 1849 archaeologists found 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing during excavations in Iraq, the translation of these ...

The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.

These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the oldest piece of literature in the world, and tells the story ...

CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images The ancient Sumerian civilization, thriving around 4000 to 2000 BCE, was characterized by its pioneering advancements in human history. Sumerians established city ...

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In addition, the Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system, which defines time and seconds, because the cuneiform writing they used had a way of writing numbers from 1 to 59.

Fourth-year UChicago student Danielle Levy said her work studying cuneiform tablets written in Akkadian and Sumerian helped her learn about the ancient languages—and the stories and people associated ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

A handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address, Neil Simon’s notebook and a letter to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton are among the artifacts on display at the Library of Congress.