A 4,000-year-old tax receipt is among the treasures on display at the State Library of Victoria's annual World of the Book ...

Now we have the last instalment of his-proofs in the shape of a comparison between the primitive forms of the Chinese characters and the pictorial forms out of which the cuneiform script ...

The significance of these inscriptions lies in their documentation of a royal dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Dilmun during the second millennium BCE. They mark a critical development in the use of ...

Researchers have developed ProtoSnap, an AI-driven approach that precisely identifies and reproduces cuneiform characters, making ancient script interpretation more accurate and accessible.

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 ...

The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years ...

Electronics Tech Culture storage australia Cuneiform-inspired polymer could be the future of sustainable digital storage (or not) Australian researchers are adapting the long-extinct writing ...

This writing system eventually evolved into the cuneiform around 3000 BCE, which could express not only administrative details but also legal codes, events, literature, rituals, and religious texts.

In addition, the Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system, which defines time and seconds, because the cuneiform writing they used had a way of writing numbers from 1 to 59.

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform ...