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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used ... as the name of the period suggests, bronze tools were the main tools used, and copper ...