As autumn winds down and winter begins, these December evenings are graced with not only huge, breathtaking constellations ...

In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers started 6,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, which is located in what is now Iraq. Uruk was a major trade hub, reaching as far ...

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The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk. These include symbols ...

The study, published in Antiquity, opens new perspectives on understanding the birth of writing and may help researchers not only to gain new insights into the meanings of the designs on cylinder ...

Archbishop Bashar Warda, Archbishop of Erbil in Iraq. (Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk) Ten years ago he was on the frontline over helping over 13,000 families who fled the terrorists of ISIS and found ...