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

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

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 ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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

Instead, these tablets are written in the early cuneiform writing system. The tablets were identified within a large state archive building that was constructed from traditional mud-brick walls.

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

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

and then the tablet was baked. 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 ...

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...