Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer complaint we know of – and it's a doozy. Writing and trade have an inseparable history.

While Yelp has only been around for 10 years or so, complaining about customer service has been around for since, well, forever. A Reddit user who goes by the name or “tbc34” recently brought an ...

The tablets have been authoritatively dated to a period from 350 B.C. to 50 B.C. The people of Mesopotamia — what is now Iraq — developed mathematics about 5,000 years ago.

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...

A clay tablet from Old Babylonia with a lunar eclipse table. (Trustees of the British Museum) The recently translated omens speak to the sheer complexity of this organized 'warning' system.

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...

The evidence was translated from a clay tablet labeled YBC 7289, formed between 1800 and 1600 BC, which uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length of a diagonal inside a ...