Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...

After cuneiform was replaced by alphabetic writing sometime after the first century A.D., the hundreds of thousands of clay tablets and other inscribed objects went unread for nearly 2,000 years.

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

An estimated 500,000 cuneiform tablets sit in museums, but only a fraction have been translated and published. "There's an ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...

With the new approach, they can make an accurate copy of any character and reproduce whole tablets. Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and ...

“I was home making gingerbread cookies one year and realized that they looked like very close to something that I was working with [Cuneiform tablets],” Blanchard said. Pieces of gingerbread quickly ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...