Ancient objects each tell their own unique stories, the University of Chicago undergraduate has learned. Through her work on Akkadian—the language of ancient Babylonia—the fourth-year student has ...

Once the clay was dried or baked, these impressions were preserved. This writing system was first developed by the Sumerians, an ancient civilization that lived in cities in southern Mesopotamia from ...

Cuneiform was developed by the Sumerian civilization that lived in early cities in southern Mesopotamia from about 5500 to 2300 B.C., when it was succeeded by the Akkadian Empire, based in the ...