This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

Arsenal should avoid signing Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike this summer because he is not ready to be the main man at a club chasing the Premier League title. That's according to Emmanuel ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC. Image: Ancient artwork from Nineveh, possibly depicting ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 and 2800 B.C. Several stone tombs were discovered there a decade ago, full of hundreds of copper artifacts, textiles and ...

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use to look back in time. And what ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

The first wheel with an axle, also called the true potter’s wheel, was invented in Mesopotamia around 4200–4000 BC. Around this time, the Sumerians were living in a location called Sumer, some 100 ...