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

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

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

Omar Badawi A historical and intellectual journey awaits visitors to “Arabic Language: Twenty-Eight Letters of Light,” an ...

Stiola represents the second installment in the Keramos exhibition series, which Al-Masry initiated in January 2024. The ...

Abstract: Motivated by the challenges of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) community, we develop digital tools for processing cuneiform script being a 3D script imprinted into clay ...

Cuneiform. Ancient inscription, old sumerian writing carving on... Cuneiform. Ancient inscription, old sumerian writing carving on stone or clay tiles, number symbol and babylonian language ...

While our standard numbering system (1-10) is maybe simpler when it comes to everyday numbers, when it comes to larger numbers it is quite flawed. The Sumerians, long before the foundations of western ...

The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for decades been the predominant narrative among specialists of the ancient ...

The World Health ‌Organization warned on Tuesday that Europe could face “more deadly weeks” ahead, with another intense ...