Ancient cuneiform tablets at Denmark's National Museum may prove that Sumerian hero Gilgamesh was a real historical ruler.
The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...
Researchers have identified the world's oldest known beer receipt, a small clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia detailing ...
Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...
They partied like it was 1989 … BC. People were enjoying libations with coworkers long before the modern-day office soiree.
There's nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday - and it turns out this tradition dates back thousands of years ...
More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tablets from ...
Deep beneath the surface of the Yucatán Peninsula, a submerged archaeological site has yielded an astonishing collection of ...