TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

Inside the bitter river, small circles and rectangles represent different cities and tribes in Mesopotamia including Babylon, and another rectangle represents the Euphrates River. “You have ...

‘In this exceptional book, Monika Amsler offers a new account of the Babylonian Talmud that centers the material dimensions of information technology and textual organization in Mediterranean ...

a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and ...

Unless you're the folks at Artificer, that is. Artificer used that unorthodox collection of characters to create Sumerian Six, a historical fiction-slash-tactical stealth game that, despite a few ...

The Fertile Crescent, bounded by mountains in the north and desert to the south gave birth to civilisations in Egypt and Syria, and Mesopotamia and Babylon in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley.

Sumerian Six follows the Enigma Squad, a team of scientist commandos composed of the world’s greatest scientists who combine their skills to conduct secret missions in their fight against the ...