Finkel and colleagues translated more of the cuneiform on the map and realized that it seemed to be alluding to the location of Noah's ark. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like ...

Named Imago Mundi, this crucial Babylonian artifact is marked with cuneiform script and illustrates a circular world map, representing early ideas about the creation of the world. Researchers at ...

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new ...

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 ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...