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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The origins of cuneiform writing are believed to have arisen in the ancient city of Uruk, in what is now southern Iraq, around 4000 BC. Initially used as a simple system of record-keeping for trade ...

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 ...

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 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 ...