Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Some recipes recorded 4,000 years ago by humans appear to have similarities to a modern cuisine, and a few ingredients have ...

These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in cuneiform clay tablets ... they require no learning and no translation. A crucial challenge for getting ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform, after the Latin for “wedge”—fell out of use. How three Victorians brought Assyria’s ...

Likewise, we have little insight into his personal feelings and opinions; his writing, like his ambition ... in North America—the first English translation of nine volumes of journals and ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Later on, in 2022, Google Translate added eight Indian languages ... Sumerian is among the earliest languages for which written evidence exists, with its cuneiform script becoming known to be the ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...