The first recorded epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is also preserved thanks to cuneiform. This episode traces the history of cuneiform, exploring how this script worked, who used it and what ...

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 ...

They also found remains of buildings and three clay tablets. The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age found in the region. Cuneiform is a writing system from ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.