Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

The full hymn was scattered among fragmented pieces of clay tablet, but using an AI program, experts were able to piece ...

The writing system, known as cuneiform, involved pressing symbols into clay tablets using a stylus. Although people stopped speaking Sumerian around 2000 BCE, it continued to be used for religious ...

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 ...

They used symbols and markings with a stylus, a form known as proto-cuneiform. The symbols on the tablet represent animals, commodities, beverages, some processes, and various other objects.

By the end of the project, though, they've realized that they need to use a completely different set of motions—pressing, impressing, and lifting the corner of the stylus instead of dragging it across ...

From cuneiform (a writing system that dates back to Mesopotamia that used a stylus to imprint markings on clay tablets) to Johannes Gutenberg's development of metal movable type and the start of the ...

Cuneiform writing involved pressing a stylus into soft clay to create wedge-shaped marks. These marks represented sounds, allowing people to record spoken language.

Cuneiform writing used a stylus to make wedge-shaped impressions in unbaked clay. These impressions created signs representing sounds to make a record of spoken language.

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia.