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

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about 3350-3000BC. Now, experts have linked early cuneiform ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

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

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and ... They brainstorm and write a short paragraph on each letter (Ex: Cuneiform: cuneiform was an early form or writing used ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...