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

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

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

"Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform script document the political, social, economic, and scientific history of ancient Mesopotamia," the report said. "Yet, most of ...

The difficulty in decoding cuneiform is partly due to the limited number of experts who are able to read the script, and partly due to the age and fragility of the tablets themselves. The most ...

By the time Lamassī picked up her stylus, cuneiform script was a thousand years old. For most of that time, however, writing had been the monopoly of a small class of specially trained scribes ...

Specifically, this AI is being used to translate tablets with Akkadian texts using cuneiform script, some of which date back to 2,500 BCE. It's like a super Google Translate.

The letter itself was written using a reed stylus to impress cuneiform script into a clay tablet. The tablet itself is small, at just over two inches wide by three inches high. Weighing just three ...