Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world. In the 19th Century, ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

They range in date from c.2500 BC to c.500 BC and were written in the ancient Akkadian (Babylonian) language in cuneiform script. This vital post-excavation work to analyse and interpret these ...

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Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs started out as logogrammatic ... the world’s oldest undeciphered script. Or maybe not. Perhaps the two writing systems are unconnected, the relationship between them ...

Researchers have developed ProtoSnap, an AI-driven approach that precisely identifies and reproduces cuneiform characters, making ancient script interpretation more accurate and accessible.

In most civilisations, writing was invented chiefly for documenting information related to commerce. For example, the Proto-Cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, written on clay tablets, kept a ...

The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years ...

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