Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor, who organize the collection of cuneiform characters at the British Museum, have created a chart that summarizes the connections between each cuneiform character ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

“There will be an attack on the land by a locust swarm,” one omen reads. “A large army will fall,” says another. “A king will die,” a third predicts. Ancient Babylonians made these ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...

Her RTs = unwavering personal convictions @kastaliamedrano. Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 ...

A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict missing words, fragments and sentences from cuneiform tablets that are up to 4500 years old. Clay tablets inscribed with text written ...

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia ...