The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...

Australian researchers create a new data storage technique that uses nanometer precision to store data in ternary format.

Old Clay Tablet Discovered with First Diagnosis of Infertility, Discussed Contingency Plan The first diagnosis to handle ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a ...

Australian researchers create a new data storage technique that uses nanometer precision to store data in ternary format.

Photograph of proto-cuneiform tablet showing signs discussed in the article. (Colour image of drawing of Fig. 4 in the article - Ref_ Englund 1994 ATU 5_ pl. 71).

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

A team of researchers at Flinders University has adopted a cuneiform-inspired concept to develop a cutting-edge method for storing bits and bytes on a futuristic, polymer-based ...

Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules ...