Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

Because the cuneiform script existed, Mesopotamian stories were written down on clay tablets and many of them still exist. Judith Heineman will tell several of these ancient tales including the ...

Jul 06, 2020 08:00:00 Researchers have reproduced the 'recipe for cooking made by the people of ancient Mesopotamia' written on clay tablets about 4000 years ago.

Researchers studying clay balls from Mesopotamia have discovered clues to a lost code that was used for record-keeping about 200 years before writing was invented.

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk.

The original USB stick? 5,500-year-old clay spheres containing Mesopotamian code could be the 'first ever data storage' devices CT scans and 3D modelling have now shown what is inside these spheres ...

But why would a scribe need this calculation in ancient Mesopotamia — and how did said individual generate it? While Plimpton 322 depicts a curious deviation, clay multiplication tables were commonly ...

“Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus” examines the flowering of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, which is present-day Iraq.

Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional works—exchanges that connect the women of Mesopotamia’s long history with ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...