A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have ...

An ancient mystery has been solved by a French archaeologist who successfully cracked the code to an undeciphered Iranian ...

Mojtaba Doroudi underlined that Arfa’i was a pioneer and the first Iranian scholar to achieve mastery in Elamite and Old Babylonian, languages used in many Achaemenid tablets and inscriptions. “Arfa’i ...

Twenty-five centuries ago, the “paperwork” of Persia’s Achaemenid Empire was recorded on clay tablets—tens of thousands of which were discovered in 1933 in modern-day Iran by archaeologists from the ...

Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks. Part I. Imagining Elam: the history of research and its sources. Aelam regio : Elam in Western scholarship from the ...

While a modern-day war has focused the world's attention on Iran, for French archaeologist François Desset it was a millennia-old mystery that drew him to the country. His quest: to decipher the 4,000 ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...

Tradition und Nationalgefühl in der elamischen Konföderation / Michael Andreas Mäder -- Agricultural production of the Girsu-Lagaš Institution at Susa during the Ur III Period / Kazuya Maekawa -- ...