This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe that the tablet records the purchase of barley for brewing beer and was ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Egyptian forces in 609 B.C.

INTRODUCTION Egyptologists have made one cardinal mistake by including human beings with white complexions as Pharaohs in ...

“We can also note that literacy was more common in that era, and thus his reign was most likely documented by scribes who witnessed ... were not all expelled to Mesopotamia in the 7th century ...

Stone tablets survive from Mesopotamia bearing laws written in ... The charter itself was widely distributed, too. Royal scribes made at least 13 copies, and perhaps as many as 40.

At the recent MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, I met a company, Sumer Sports, that is trying to change this by using AI-based video analytics to study every player on every play to ...