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

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern ...

The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a ...

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.