Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...

A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...

From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel ...

Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place ... They were written thousands of years ago on clay tablets. This Sumerian King List prism is from around 2004BC-1595BC. The Sumerian King ...

Researchers analyzing 1 million Akkadian words from ancient Mesopotamian texts revealed unique insights into how emotions ...

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

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 thousands ...

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Journalist Bartle Bull, a member of the committee for the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art ... to the development of writing,' Bull said. Clay tablet tokens, used to record people's ...

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