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Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence ...

The “Espresso” singer donated $25,000 to the campaign. During Roan’s speech at the Grammys, Carpenter had tears in her eyes ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

This pissed off former music industry executive and possible ghoul Jeffrey S. Rabhan, who wrote a scathing (and not ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Steppingstone Towers. The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples—dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi ...

Britannica noted this framework was the most widespread and historically significant writing system. Its first emergence may be traced back to the end of the 4th millennium BCE when the Sumerians, the ...

Some have attempted to link Harappan to Sumerian, or even more obscure writing systems like proto-Elamite, but according to scholars publishing around the turn of the 21st century, there’s as ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Made up of signs and symbols, the writing consists of around 4,000 short ... Indo-Aryan languages and Sumerian. Decyphering the script would allow researchers to gain further knowledge on ...