Somewhere around 4,000 years ago, a scribe in the ancient Near East pressed a reed stylus into wet clay and wrote out ...

Learn how AI is helping researchers reconnect shattered clay tablets and recognize the handwriting styles of individual ...

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

Discover how the new Palaeographicum system isolates ancient handwriting styles to reconstruct long-lost secrets of human ...

To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

A discovery in southern Iraq has given us a rare glimpse into the world of ancient bureaucracy. Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals ...

Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...

Not the exact thing you want to read on an ancient tablet if you happen to be any sort of superstitious. But it’s one of several omens that a group of archaeologists read when they finally deciphered ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

About 1,400 cuneiform tablets that were possibly stolen from Irisagrig, a 4,000-year-old lost city in Iraq, have just been revealed. Even though archaeologists know the tablets originated in that lost ...

Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...