Journalist Hammer follows up The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu with another dazzling archival adventure. By the 1850s, several scholars claimed to have decoded cuneiform, an ancient Mesopotamian ...

OUR readers who are in the position of being able to recall the “discovery” of Nineveh, which was announced between the years 1845 and 1854, will have no difficulty in remembering that the exhuming of ...

IT is now about thirty-five years ago since the late Edward Hincks, whose name will be honourably coupled with the history of cuneiform decipherment, astonished many folk by declaring that he had ...

An introduction to writing -- The riddle of the Sphinx: the decipherment of Egyptian writing -- Ahura Mazda came to my aid: the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform -- In cuneiform on six bricks: the ...