The ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform, shown here on a clay tablet documenting barley rations issued monthly to adults and children. The language may have died out as a result of a 200-year drought ...

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in 20+ languages including Irish, Hungarian, Mandarin and Swedish.

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Around 4000 years ago, in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Ancient Mesopotamia developed the first written language of the world. On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia ...

This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. Listen to part two here. This episode originally aired on August 5, 2022. In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq ...

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Archaeology teaches us so much more about the history of the world and humanity every year, revealing new secrets, reshaping our understanding of the past, and conjuring new mysteries to be solved by ...