A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

Researchers translated the cuneiform writing, which is characterized by symbols gouged into moist clay. Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in ...

To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

Kültepe Kaniş/Karum Höyüğü excavations in central Türkiye have yielded a 4,000-year-old clay tablet preserved inside a mud ...

Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'A king will die': Researchers decipher 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom A team of researchers have successfully ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...

Buried beneath the Syrian desert for millennia, the city of Mari and its extraordinary archive of 25,000 cuneiform tablets ...

Rare cuneiform tablets and mass graves found at an ancient Iraq site are revealing new details about Bronze Age siege warfare ...

A small clay tablet no larger than a modern handheld document is offering an extraordinary glimpse into the commercial world ...