To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 ...

Babylonians were using advanced geometry over 3,700 years ago. Their clay tablet, Si.427, reveals a world of surprising ...

Deciphering the Indus script could reveal if Indus seals were the first currency. These seals, diversified in their uses, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Seattle Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen, left, shares a moment with his mother following an NFL football game ...

As the marque’s lineup grew, funkier designs and oddball names appeared including the Dolphin, Sealion 7, Seal, and Seal U, the latter being the only hybrid option. The zany car that became my ...

An off-white intaglio limestone object in the shape of a cylinder with flat ends. It stands upright on a dark grey background. It is engraved with lines that show the form of a four-legged animal ...

Hammurabi began his 42-year reign as “king” of Babylon (located in present-day Iraq), in 1792 BC. What most history books fail to mention is that, like other governors of the City-State of Mesopotamia ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed ... Puabi comes from the discovery of a cylinder seal with her name on it. Her status as a queen is assumed ...

Although the existence of a civilisation as ancient as Mesopotamia and as grand as Egypt ... found in almost 80 per cent of the 2,000 stamp seals from the Harappa. This unicorn is shown sniffing ...

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Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et al., Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski It’s common for humans to express our emotions with phrases related to the body. For example, butterflies in the stomach ...

For thousands of years, various cultures have used medicinal clays. The earliest recorded use dates back to Mesopotamian clay tablets from around 2500 BC. The Egyptians and several Indigenous ...