Across the ancient southern Levant, some cylinder seals carried inscriptions that looked like cuneiform but could not be ...

The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his novel-writing that he left much of the military strategising to his sons leading up to the 2003 war. He continued writing in prison, using ...

The Egyptians thought literacy was divine, a benefaction which came from the baboon-faced god Thoth. In fact the earliest known script - cuneiform - came from Uruk, a Mesopotamian settlement on the ...