Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...

For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many over 4,000 years old and written in languages that ...

Christine Xuan Müller Stabsstelle Kommunikation und Marketing Freie Universität Berlin. Researchers from Berlin and Jerusal ...

Iraq's archaeological treasures dating back 4,000 years were plundered during decades of war and insurgency, with US saying ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

The 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from what is now Iran has long eluded archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus traces the evolution of writing in Syria, from prehistoric symbols carved ...

“Give me your data and we’ll find patterns,” says Thomas Seidl, a computer scientist at LMU Munich. Decoding such patterns reveals secrets hidden in everything from bone fossils to ancient languages.

Archaeology Days invites us to a weekend gathering from June 12 to 14, 2026, and on Place de la Bastille a village dedicated to this fascinating discipline awaits us for the occasion. Here’s what’s in ...

Explore 25 Historic Mysteries Scientists Are Still Unraveling, from vanished cities to lost treasures. Dive into ancient ...

An ancient mystery has been solved by a French archaeologist who successfully cracked the code to an undeciphered Iranian ...