The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Robert Louis Stevenson might have been right when he claimed that “Language is but a poor bull’s eye lantern wherewith to ...

Sir — Sumerians are credited with some of the most important inventions that shaped the course of all of humanity. These include writing, the plough, the chariot and hydraulic engineering, am­ong ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...