A.I. is allowing archeologists to perform studies that would have been impossible with other, conventional research ...

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 ...

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 ...

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...