Try this 4000-year-old Mesopotamian dessert appeared first on Boing Boing. Craving something sweet? Try this 4000-year-old Mesopotamian dessert I mean, it does look pretty good.

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three Victorian amateurs were determined to solve the puzzle.

Humans Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific ...

A mysterious clay figurine dating back 7,000 years was recently discovered in the Arabian Gulf — and it bears a striking resemblance to modern depictions of alien visitors to Earth.

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Archaeologists perplexed to find Bronze Age burial of ritually sacrificed teens Region’s early society likely switched often between egalitarian and hierarchical rule, study hints ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze Age societies shifted from egalitarianism to more rigid class ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies ...

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-1544-5 ...

Science Archaeology 6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing The cylinders worked like a cookie press and were part of an accounting system. Laura Baisas Nov 5, 2024 6: ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.