This 5,500-year-old Kish tablet is the oldest written document
Beer, goats, and grains: here's what the oldest document reveals.
Tag: cuneiform
These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Newly Decoded Babylonian Tablets Uncover 4,000-Year-Old Predictions of Doom
Scholars have deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, revealing ancient beliefs linking lunar eclipses to ominous events.
AI translates ancient cuneiform tablets
It should help us preserve these priceless texts for the future.
Scientists find ‘epilepsy demon’ in 2,700-year-old clay tablet
Ancient cultures have always associated epilepsy with some religious intervention.
New passage of the Epic of Gilgamesh had us waiting even more than G R R Martin does between books
The Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq uncovered 20 new lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the nearly 3000 years old Mesopotamian ...
World’s oldest undeciphered writing system on the brink of a breakthrough
Tablet with numeric signs and script. From Teppe Sialk, Susa, Uruk period (3200 BC to 2700 BC). Department of Oriental ...
The complete Akkadian dictionary
Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, is the oldest attested written language - the code for the cuneiform writing system. Texts written in ...
