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

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 ...

New findings on the 3,000-year-old Imago Mundi tablet suggest it may contain clues to Noah’s Ark’s location, blending myth ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. The so-called hypervelocity object, which is either a low-mass star ...

It has gradually been pieced together, as the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed and deciphered. It has come out of the ground bit by bit, emerging from the ancient silence of its language only ...

Further evidence of a very early Indian merchant diaspora lies scattered around the Middle East: one cuneiform tablet ... need for at least one professional translator of their language.

Collon, Dominique, (eds.) and George, Andrew, (eds.) (2005). London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

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.

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 ...