LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Ancient artifacts thousands of years old were returned to the Republic of Iraq this week. The artifacts had been seized by federal law enforcement officials in separate ...

A museum worker wearing gloves holds up a cuneiform clay tablet, one of a collection of over 100, on display at a museum in Jerusalem. EPA/Jim Hollander Cuneiform made headlines recently with the ...

Special Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Ventura, California returned ancient artifacts to the Republic of Iraq Thursday. The ...

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated two ancient artefacts on 20 January, returning them both to Iraq, with a repatriation ceremony taking ...

The mysterious dialect of our ancient ancestors could finally be deciphered in full thanks to artificial intelligence. A million cuneiform tablets still exist in the world, experts estimate, but these ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) The really shocking part is this: Cuneiform’s stint as curator ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

Christian activists running the company wanted artifacts from the “Biblical era.” Hobby Lobby, the US crafts supply company known for its pro-Christian branding, apparently has a side interest in ...

Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city’s residents loved learning and writing in foreign languages. An Indo-European language has ...