The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm and write a short paragraph on each letter (Ex: Cuneiform: cuneiform was an early form or ...

found in the ruins of Nimrud (present-day Iraq). These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used ... Leo Oppenheim and reported on in his 1967 book , Letters From Mesopotamia.