The cuneiform sign for "head" evolved ... languages that humans invented were derived from pictures. These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

For eight decades, archaeologists had deposited thousands of artifacts and manuscripts at the museum, documenting 10,000 years of civilization that gave the world writing, mathematics and a host ...

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 ...

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

April 23 is the annual date for the celebration of English Language Day. William Shakespeare, one of the best writers in English, was born on this day, which is why it was selected. In order to ...

(The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. Scientific investigations conducted in ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform, after the Latin for “wedge”—fell out of use. How three Victorians brought Assyria’s ...

I’m writing another piece using an M4 iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard. I selected the opening paragraph, invoked Writing Tools, and selected Proofread. This is how the proofread version was ...