The National Museum's Collection of Cuneiform Tablets," has digitized and cataloged these ancient texts for the first time. Among the most spectacular findings is a royal list that includes the ...

For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of ...

There's nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday - and it turns out this tradition dates back thousands of years ...

References to "blood money" appear in letters, treaties, legal documents, and debt contracts under the term "damum." The ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Each hour would have 100 minutes décimales in turn made up of 100 secondes décimales. The time system was part of a wider ...

In the early 1470s, a Benedictine monk named Filippo de Strata sat down to write a furious letter to the Doge of Venice.

This paradigmatic ignorance is a byproduct of departmentalization; these disciplines were designed not to consider the other, ...

Sure, it was important to keep track of commercial and economic details, but it was just as important to write out ancient ...

When we tell the story of the ancient world, we too often inherit a crowded parade of kings, generals, and male philosophers, ...

A sweeping exploration of how ancient civilizations—from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica—interpreted comets and meteors as divine ...