DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Institute of Arts has added digital images of ancient Middle Eastern inscribed objects from its collection to a digital cuneiform library. The museum says translations and ...

Lacey Jewell’s class at West Feliciana Middle School made clay tablets and wrote in cuneiform during a recent lesson. Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of ...

Students in Maia Miller's sixth grade social studies classes at New Albany Middle School have been studying Sumerians and their invention of the first writing, cuneiform. Students have made clay " ...

A recently discovered clay tablet telling part of the Epic of Gilgamesh in cuneiform. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his ...

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system distinguished by wedge-shaped marks made on clay tablets, which originated in Ancient Mesopotamia in around 3400 BCE – possibly even earlier than Egyptian ...

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