Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

Proto-cuneiform is among the earliest known forms of human writing and appeared within this need to keep track of trade. The archaic form of writing consists of hundreds of pictographic signs.

The oldest surviving literary work, the Epic of Gilgamesh, discovered in 1853, was written over 4,000 years ago in the Akkadian language using cuneiform script.

The earliest forms of cuneiform used simple pictures to represent objects and actions, but over time, these pictograms evolved into more abstract symbols. This evolution allowed for a greater range of ...

Archaeological findings from the city-states that arose in ancient Mesopotamia offer sometimes surprisingly clear glimpses of ...

In recent study, Asst. Prof. Jana Matuszak publishes fully translated cuneiform tablet—the first narrative featuring Sumerian ...

In the future, the software could also help to decipher weathered inscriptions, for example in cemeteries, which are three-dimensional like the cuneiform script.

Several tablets, written in the ancient cuneiform script form a timeline of events showing the different aspects of a medical education 2,700 years ago.

To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets.