We know this to be true because Akkadian cuneiform reveals as much, epigrapher Jacob Lauinger marvels. An associate professor of Assyriology and director of graduate studies in the Department of Near ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late ...

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...

Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing, first used more than 5000 years ago—predating Egyptian hieroglyphics. Writers would press the sides of a reed stylus into a clay tablet to create a ...

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 ...

A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact ...

He says this word would make any Assyriologist's ears prick up. It is only seen on one other cuneiform tablet, which describes an ark built by the ancient Babylonian version of Noah.

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet with an early form of writing that preserves a furniture shopping list from around 3,500 years ago.

In their new approach, the researchers used 3D models of nearly 2,000 cuneiform tablets, including around 50 from a collection at MLU. According to estimates, around one million such tablets still ...

Electronics Tech Culture storage australia Cuneiform-inspired polymer could be the future of sustainable digital storage (or not) Australian researchers are adapting the long-extinct writing ...

Reading the spoken and written word inscribed on cuneiform tablets can help create an accurate picture of what life and culture may have looked like 2,000 to 4,500 years ago, according to George.

Ancient Tablets Foretold Doom Awaiting Babylonian Kings A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses.