The Mesopotamians didn’t write full text as we do today. They used symbols and markings with a stylus, a form known as proto-cuneiform. The symbols on the tablet represent animals, commodities ...

Researchers worked to decipher the cuneiform language, which is one of the oldest known forms of writing that means 'wedge shaped' because people used a reed stylus to create the wedge-shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...