Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

NEW DELHI: Delhi experienced its first dense fog of the season on Wednesday, bringing visibility down to zero in several parts of the city. The Ghazipur landfill, a massive waste dumping site in ...

Electronic City, Bengaluru, is home to a variety of esteemed schools catering to the needs of a growing residential community. With institutions offering diverse curricula—from CBSE to IB ...

The CBI has submitted a fourth supplementary chargesheet in connection with DHFL-Yes Bank deal and highlights the role of Sumer Buildcorp Pvt Ltd and its partners, who owe Yes Bank Rs 475 crore by ...

In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers started 6,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, which is located in ... “It records the Sumerian language.” The researchers ...

based in the city of Akkad. The Akkadians adopted the Sumerian system of writing but applied it to their own language — and Akkadian written in cuneiform became the common written language of ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... and some of the signs in the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, located in what is now southern Iraq ...

“There is evidence for making a claim that the invention of writing in Mesopotamia was, in fact, much more decentralised than we think,” she says. While powerful people in the major city of ...

Until modern geopolitics sapped its vibrancy, Tell el-Muqayyar and its surrounding towns were hotbeds of academic activity and tourism since the ancient Sumerian city of Ur existed there circa 3,800 ...