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 ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... and 60 minutes in an hour This tablet is amazing. For me it’s a first sign of writing but it also tells you about the growth of the ...

In Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the languages, history and cultures of the ancient Near East are investigated from the emergence of the first cuneiform texts in the late 4th millennium B.C. until the ...

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 ...

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

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.