Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in ...

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

The world's first city was built long before the Harappans, and its ruins still stand in a quiet desert far from the usual ...

A 3,000-year-old map found at The British Museum could lead us to the real resting place of Noah’s Ark, with clues hidden in ...

Conservation teams in the UNESCO-registered Susa have completed a project to safeguard and protect 253 architectural remains ...

More than three millennia ago, an ancient map was carved into clay — and it matches perfectly with the Mesopotamian city of ...

One of the cuneiform tablets with the newly discovered hymn. Credit: Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad, with the permission of the Iraqi Museum and the State Board of ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the capital of the Egyptian Empire: Akhetaten, which means Horizon of Aten. There, ...

Archaeologists working in northern Iraq have launched an urgent conservation effort to save unfired cuneiform tablets and clay sealings recently uncovered at the ancient site of Kurd Qaburstan, once ...