A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

The Ancient Greeks left a lot of valuable architecture ... It was generally accepted that Neolithic societies did not have ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

The boar's tusk helmet, unearthed from a tomb near Pylos, Greece, offers a fascinating glimpse into warrior culture dating back to 1500 BC.

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient ... s oldest form of writing, the tablets not only ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing ... customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing ... also produced tablets with dark surfaces, a practice ...