Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

The earliest known writing system, called cuneiform, was invented around 3100 ... than we think,” Ferrara tells New Scientist’s Michael Marshall. People in various roles and locations ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...