Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system ... Cale Johnson, professor of the history of knowledge in the ancient world at Freie Universität Berlin. Johnson was not involved in the ...

A museum worker wearing gloves holds up a cuneiform clay tablet, one of a collection of over 100, on display at a museum in Jerusalem. EPA/Jim Hollander Cuneiform made headlines recently with the ...

Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor, who organize the collection of cuneiform characters at the British Museum, have created a chart that summarizes the connections between each cuneiform character ...

Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform script document the political, social, economic and scientific history of ancient Mesopotamia, they wrote. “Yet, most of these ...

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

These engravings are followed beneath by about 26 lines of cuneiform text that experts ... "[It] has great historical significance from the first millennium [B.C.] until the early Islamic era." ...

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 ...