Archaeologists believe they’ve uncovered fresh clues that could solve one of history’s most famous mysteries. No, not the ...

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

According to Dr. Irving Finkel, Curator and Assyriologist, the earliest evidence for writing was in southern Mesopotamia around 3200–3350 BC during the late Uruk period. These first clay texts didn’t ...

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual. Researchers at Germany's University of Wurzburg have unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool that ...

Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...

The Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced in the world for over 500 years. More than 1000 settlements sprawled across 250,000 square miles of what is now Pakistan and northwest India ...

While a modern-day war has focused the world's attention on Iran, for French archaeologist François Desset it was a millennia-old mystery that drew him to the country. His quest: to decipher the 4,000 ...

This is what happens when a 5,000-year-old technology meets the digital age. Researchers from the National Museum of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen have analyzed, identified, and digitized a ...

For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many over 4,000 years old and written in languages that ...

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...