Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

The team compared cylinder seal motifs with proto-cuneiform signs, aiming to find correlations that could be convincingly shown to not only relate to shape but also to meaning. They identified ...

Also because the 22 letter Aramaic alphabet was much easier to master than the 600 or so signs of the cuneiform. The evidence of the side-by-side existence of the two langauges in 4th century B.C. is ...

All the signs were produced by a cut reed ... an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy.

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

Also because the 22 letter Aramaic alphabet was much easier to master than the 600 or so signs of the cuneiform. The evidence of the side-by-side existence of the two langauges in 4th century B.C. is ...