The ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, invented writing about 3,300 B.C., using a complicated cuneiform writing system on clay tablets.

A quick search revealed that the language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. Akkadian was written logographic and syllabic, meaning that its symbols contained semantic meaning—much like the Mandarin ...

He was considered the world’s leading expert on Sumerian, an ancient language of Mesopotamia. He also helped Anchor Brewing re-create a Sumerian beer.

These songs are examples of how art and science can come together to create something incredible. Musician Stef Conner learned to read several ancient Babylonian and Sumerian tablets written 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 ...

Miguel Civil was a leading scholar of Sumerian, the world’s oldest written language. He was a longtime professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute. (Gonzalo Rubio) ...