Cuneiform tablets are among the earliest surviving written records in human history. By recreating tablets from the Epic of ...

A lost archive from the Bronze Age resurfaces after years in hiding, offering rare insight into a forgotten empire’s power, language, and diplomacy.

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform tablets, according to newly published research. Using machine learning, the ...

A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the oldest piece of literature in the world, and tells the story ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC. The ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's capable of ...

Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...