They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.

In the dusty lowlands of ancient Mesopotamia, between the winding rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates in what is now Iraq, Sumerian civilisation rose, not only on the back of agriculture, but ...

Observing your pee Although urinalysis is as old as medicine itself – Sumerian and Babylonian physicians recorded their findings on clay tablets 6,000 years ago, and Sanskrit texts from 100 BC ...

Stone tablets survive from Mesopotamia bearing laws written in Sumerian around 2100 B.C. Magna ... written records of an oral agreement. Their text is virtually identical—heavily abridged ...

Sumerian is among the earliest languages for which written ... It has found a place among scholars and academics as an important language for studying ancient texts and religious scriptures too – ...