A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 11, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; With a Memoir (Continued) (1849), pp. 1-192 ...

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 ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.