Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Scientists have started to decode mysterious symbols found on 5,000-year-old cylinder seals to trace the invention of writing ...

It is in this context that proto-cuneiform appeared: an archaic form of writing made up of hundreds of pictographic signs, more than half of which remain undeciphered to this day. Like cylinder ...

This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well ...

The cuneiform tablet, measuring 4.2 by 3.5 centimeters ... has been working diligently to translate and study the tablet. Dr. Jacob Lauinger, an associate professor of Assyriology at Johns Hopkins ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...