Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known ...

The University’s recently completed reference work to a dead Mesopotamian language has a lively following. Soon after its completion was announced in early June, downloads of the Chicago Assyrian ...

The translation of Sumerian tablet from Nippur reveals a rare myth of storm god Ishkur and the earliest trickster fox.

The system uses both syllables and images— logograms —to record language. It was adapted first for the Sumerian language and, later, for Akkadian and Hittite.

What I would love to see discovered in 2025 is a bilingual inscription (on any medium—stone, pottery, metal) of a Mesopotamian language and the Indus script.

Article Published: 30 November 1940 Ancient Mesopotamia and the Beginnings of Science E. A. SPEISER Nature 146, 705–709 (1940) Cite this article ...

The raids targeted the Mesopotamia Language and Culture Research Association (MED-DER) and Payîz Pîrtuk bookstore, resulting in several detentions. Hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers were ...

What I would love to see discovered in 2025 is a bilingual inscription (on any medium—stone, pottery, metal) of a Mesopotamian language and the Indus script.