Journalist Hammer follows up The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu with another dazzling archival adventure. By the 1850s, several scholars claimed to have decoded cuneiform, an ancient Mesopotamian ...

IT is now about thirty-five years ago since the late Edward Hincks, whose name will be honourably coupled with the history of cuneiform decipherment, astonished many folk by declaring that he had ...