The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic) languages could alike be recorded. And all this began before 3,000 BC.

The location is the Assyrian equivalent to ‘Ararat,’ the Hebrew word for the mountain ... in what is now Iraq back in 1882.

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled a significant link between ancient trade symbols and the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia. Researchers from the University ...

Two ancient clay tablets unearthed in Iraq have unveiled details of a long-lost Canaanite language closely tied to ancient ...