The history of writing is for sale on the Internet, and it’s cheap. The opening bid for a cuneiform cone that allegedly hails from 2000 B.C.E. starts at $1. A square tablet recording a sale that took ...

From 3500–3000 B.C., the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, carved wedge-shaped signs on clay tablets with reed pens. These are cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. The ...

Scholars at Tel Aviv University and Ariel University, in Israel, have used artificial intelligence to translate fragments of ancient cuneiform texts on stone tablets into English with what they say is ...

The sixth grade World History Class at Holy Rosary, Duryea, recently studied a unit on cuneiform. Sumerian cuneiform is the earliest known writing system. Its origins can be traced back to about 8,000 ...

Cuneiform cookies? Yes, they are a thing. Though it has been centuries since Akkadian was spoken, cuneiform writing has had an unexpected burst of popularity as a cookie decoration. The idea started ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for the Sumerian ...

Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilization, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by ...