Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

Dr. Irving Finkel, assistant keeper of ancient Mesopotamian Script at the British Museum, will discuss how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time; and reveal how the ...

The scaling of energy infrastructure in the US is crucial to meet the growing demand for electricity. Writing systems evolved ...

Ancient writing systems tell stories of forgotten civilizations and lost knowledge. Their decipherment often requires decades of scholarly work, combining linguistics, archaeology, and historical ...

I found the article “Cracking the code”, on the use of AI to read the ancient Mesopotamian script cuneiform, extremely interesting (6 August, p 40). It has got me wondering if such AI could be used, ...