X-Ray Specs for the World’s Oldest, Sealed Letters

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...
Daily Sabah

4,000-year-old clay tablet on display at Turkish museum

Kültepe Kaniş/Karum Höyüğü excavations in central Türkiye have yielded a 4,000-year-old clay tablet preserved inside a mud ...
Nature

Old Babylonian and Chinese Characters

PROF. TERRIEN DELACOUPERIE has long been known as the advocate of a theory which would bring the ancestors of the Chinese from Western Asia, and see in. the characters they employed derivatives from ...
Metro

Scientists have just unlocked a 3,500-year-old ancient code that could rewrite human history

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual (Picture: Dr Daniel Schwemer/Cover Media) Artificial intelligence is being used to translate ancient clay cuneiform ...
La Brújula Verde

Researchers Manage to Distinguish the Handwriting of Different Hittite Scribes in Cuneiform Tablets with Artificial Intelligence

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual. The lines of text are clearly visible from a distance. A closer look (right) reveals just how badly worn the ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
Nature

The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Series A: Cuneiform Texts

ONE of the most interesting peoples of the ancient world was the Sumerian race, which founded the great civilisation of Babylonia. The cuneiform writing of western Asia was their invention, and the ...
IFLScience

Humans Have Independently Invented Writing More Than Once, And Generally For The Same Purpose

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Metro

Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

A mammoth figurine found in the Vogelherd Cave. It is around 40,000 years old and covered in sequences of crosses and dots which researchers believe may be the roots ...
The Economist

Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

A SYSTEM OF caves in the Swabian Jura, a mountain range in what is now southwest Germany, offers archaeologists a window onto the life of the first anatomically modern Europeans. Between 43,000 and 34 ...
The Independent

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Fox News

Archaeologists unearth evidence of biblical power struggle beneath Jerusalem: 'Screamed with excitement'

A group of excavators recently uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem — shedding light on ancient power struggles described in the Bible. The inscription, which was carved on ...