Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Time and again, it has become evident that ancient civilizations were miles ahead when it came to creativity. An example of it is the "Kneeling Bull," which was crafted around 5,000 years ago, ...

The ancient language of Linear Elamite may have finally been deciphered, according to a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische ...

TEHRAN -- The director of the archaeological team working at the Jiroft ancient site in the Halil-Rud River cultural area told archaeologists on Wednesday to use the term Proto-Iranian instead of ...

“Two clay vessels belonging to the Old Elam (Banash) were discovered while people were digging to install curbs for the sidewalk in the village of Golmakan, Marvdasht county, “ Mehr quoted the ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

Yusef Majidzadeh argues that the inscriptions recently discovered at Konar-Sandal, a subsection of the Jiroft ancient site, and at some other ancient sites in Iran, are older than the oldest ...