As part of its academic program aimed at promoting cuneiform studies and ancient languages, the College of Archaeology at Al-Qadisiyah University hosted visiting researcher Dr. Susanna Bulos from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Chicago to deliver a series of specialized academic lectures for undergraduate students.

The lectures addressed the Sumerian language as the oldest written language in human history, presenting its linguistic characteristics as a language isolate, discussing its morphological and syntactic structure, and its role in the formation of the first written corpus in southern Mesopotamia during the third millennium BC.

The lectures also focused on the development of writing from the proto-cuneiform stage in the late fourth millennium BC to the phonetic-syllabic cuneiform system, explaining the relationship between the development of writing and the emergence of institutional and administrative structures in early cities. The nature of the earliest texts, particularly economic and administrative texts, was also analyzed as a direct reflection of the mechanisms of economic and social organization in emerging urban societies.