In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

A study suggests that the human act of kissing is a remnant of grooming, in which great apes use lip suction to clean the fur ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Although the term is Akkadian, ziggurats were first developed by the Sumerians in the third millennium BCE. Ziggurats were ...

In Akkadian, the root of the words Babylon and Babel does not mean to mix; it means “gateway of the gods.” The Tower of BabelBabylon’s ziggurat, which became a symbol of human arrogance ...