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, ...

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

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other ... Ever since its initial launch, this thesaurus has become one of the digital tools that Hittitologists use every day, with more than 100,000 ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on ... With the right tools, historians may one day reconstruct lost libraries, decode languages that ...

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 ...