Archaeologists discover two 2,300-year-old Celtic swords encrusted with glass and copper in France, revealing ancient ...

In 1849, archaeologists discovered 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing in Iraq that narrate the story of the Anunnaki, meaning "Those who from heaven to Earth came." According to Zecharia Sitchin, ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over 4,000 years. They are being cleaned by British-American conservator ...

Bryony Gooch 16 March 2025 at 10:57 am·3-min read Tablets found by the British Museum and Iraq government’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage give a new insight into ancient civilisation ...

This tablet lists the names of Girsu citizens (Alberto Giannese/British Museum2) “They record all aspects of Sumerian life, and above all they name real people, their names, their jobs,” he said.

Sargon originally came from the city of Akkad, whose location remains unknown but is thought the be near modern Baghdad. The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion. These ...

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.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 B.C.

It first appeared around 3350 to 3000 BC in the city of Uruk, in modern southern Iraq. But the origins of proto-cuneiform’s emergence have been murky, and many of its symbols remain undeciphered.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC. The ...