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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters. The appearance of these characters can vary across eras ...