Here's where ancient accounting technology gets truly sophisticated. Cylinder seals, dating back to 4,400 BC, functioned as ...

New research has revealed that the first kiss in recorded history took place at least 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamian ...

The ancient clay tablet from 2400 BCE was found in an ancient Mesopotamian city and revealed an unknown Sumerian mythology in ...

Researchers have deciphered text from four ancient Mesopotamian tablets which are roughly 4,000 years old and belonged to the former people of Mesopotamia. Perhaps surprisingly, the messages ...

Everyone has their favorite recipe passed down from earlier generations, but the oldest cookbook in the world actually goes ...

IT'S a few notches on a 4000-year-old clay tablet. But what it reveals about the ancient biblical story of Noah's ark has scholars crowing the world over. Jamie Seidel and agencies 3 min read ...

Most of the more than 100,000 Mesopotamian tablets in the British Museum’s collection remain undeciphered, if not uncataloged. More omens may surely wait in the archives. “There are too many tablets ...

Around 1750 BC during the Bronze Age, a man named Nanni, who lived in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur , sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir.

Deciphering four Mesopotamian tablets, team led by Assyriologist Andrew George shows Babylonians understood celestial events as messages from the gods ...

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information about Mesopotamian life. University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game ...