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Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

Massive Publishing co-founder and president Kevin Roditeli quits to become a comic book writer, screenwriter and director.

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Credit: Discovering Mesopotamia. Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati ... society and with it “the very nature of ...

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

The conventional history of writing dates its emergence to Proto-Cuneiform tablets used in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Tokens of differing sizes and shapes were used to record quantities of ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

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