Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

Researchers have developed ProtoSnap, an AI-driven approach that precisely identifies and reproduces cuneiform characters, ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...