Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

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 ...

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The programme also covers Mesopotamian history, archaeology and civilisation from around 4,000 BC up to the Greek conquest. A Bachelor of Arts with at least 60 credits in the given discipline, or an ...

A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent. Identifying the watery nature of ...

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 ...