Many of the world’s earliest archives and libraries were destroyed thousands of years ago, leaving behind only fragments of ...

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

RUMOURS must have reached the general reader from time to time of the “finds” of tablets which have been made by the natives in Southern Babylonia; and it is a matter for congratulation that, judging ...

The annual Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture brings high-level speakers in the field of biology to share the latest research and discoveries. Presented by the Department of Biological Sciences, the ...

Director of the Executive Secretariat of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings bring together about 600 excellent young scientists and 30–40 Nobel laureates every year ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

Register for the 2026 January Series! Visit the January Series homepage on the day of the event. Click the "Watch Now" button at the top of the page. Or, if you signed up to receive email reminders, ...

Welcome to the ME 323 course website for the Spring 2026 term. The material on this site is a complement to the lecture book for the course. And, all material here is accessible without the need to ...