Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Writing is thought to have emerged in ancient Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago. But new research by ...

Simon Armitage’s translation of the Sumerian epic highlights the friendship between its two heroes and the terrible grief of ...

Award-winning filmmakers Haya Fatima Iqbal and Nadir Siddiqui take readers inside the epic task of chronicling Mohenjo ...

A small Christian group — the Chaldean Syrian Church — represents the faction of 1st-century Christians who firmly resisted ...

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It’s a good time to remember that it wouldn’t be the first time a whole civilization was wiped out. Here are 12 examples, plus an example of removing parts of the population and trying to erase their ...

For 2,500 years, influential rulers have been trying to defeat Persia. But neither Croesus, nor Alexander the Great, nor Rome ...

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The enigma of Sumerian origins remains one of the most compelling debates in modern archaeology and linguistics. While the Sumerians are credited with establishing the world’s first high civilization ...