Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

This discovery sheds light on the political and economic significance of the ancient site of Garan on the western borders of Elamite civilization. According to ISNA, the findings were reported during ...

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 / ...

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 ...

Sixty-seven years after borrowing important documents from the government of Iran, the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute announced Wednesday that its scholars have read them, digested them ...

A special event in April was an intensive course in Achaemenid Elamite given by Wouter Henkelman from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. For five days we delved into the structure of this ...

A writing system known as "Linear Elamite" has been deciphered, but some experts are not so sure about the results. For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered ...

With your help, and some space age camera-work, Oxford University may be on the verge of translating the world’s oldest writing system. Using both the latest imaging technology and the practice of ...

The tablet which bears cuneiform inscriptions was found during a cultivation process on a personal farm in Ramhormoz county [of Khuzestan province], a senior police official in charge of protecting ...

For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered illegible. Now a team of archaeologists claims to have partially deciphered the writing system. But other researchers ...