A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

cuneiform. “The crucial link that we’re presenting in the paper is a first concrete set of a few signs where we can explicitly say: These are there before writing, and they’re used in ...

A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC.

Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform ... is a first concrete set of a few signs where we can explicitly say: these are there before writing and they ...