A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

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The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

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Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in ...

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