Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?
- Associate Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Ongoing excavations in northern Iraq add to our knowledge of the neo-Assyrian empire – and the beauty of its cities.
Babylonians were quite formal in their written records, so working out how to be chatty in their long-dead language was an exciting challenge.
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