It’s important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between pre-writing symbols used to mark objects and more precise marks that establish ...

Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written ...

The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950s A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. Assyrian and Babylonian - ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

Picture writing was invented in Mesopotamia before 3,000 BC. This clay tablet, dating to about 3,100 BC, has written on it a list of rations. It shows how writing was developing from using pictures to ...

The University’s recently completed reference work to a dead Mesopotamian language has a lively following. The response has pleased Martha T. Roth, editor-in-charge of the Assyrian Dictionary. A ...

While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much ...

Filmmakers at Trinity College Dublin have banded together to release a world’s first: a film performed entirely in the ancient and dead language of Sumerian. Directed and produced by Professor Martin ...