Sumer, arguably the world’s first civilization, was made up of a group of city-states. Located in Mesopotamia, what is now Iraq, these city-states engaged in trade and sometimes warfare with each ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

DAMASCUS, 11 January (BelTA - SANA Agensy). - The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC.

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more ...

The world’s oldest writing – older than any alphabet – is cuneiform, first used by the Sumerians who lived in and around what is now Iraq more than 5,000 years ago. The word means “wedge ...

One video will show visitors how ancient scribes wrote cuneiform on clay tablets and painted hieroglyphs on papyrus. Interactive presentations will show how Oriental Institute scholars have been the ...

The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today Anne Trubek A museum worker wearing gloves holds up a cuneiform clay tablet, one of a collection of over 100, on ...

CHICAGO One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a clay tablet that dates from around 3200 B ...