An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway? The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today ...

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter.

Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered ...

The authors describe three Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets. These tablets date from 680 to 655 BCE and describe red clouds or a red glow in the night sky.

A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet describes an Assyrian couple's contingency plan for what to do if their marriage didn't prove to be a fertile one—use a slave surrogate.

On 10th January, a team of ANEE members and students gave a cuneiform workshop in the science event Tieteiden yö (”Night of Sciences”). Even though reading, let alone writing, cuneiform is difficult, ...

The clay tablets contained Cuneiform writing that was created by 19th-century Assyrian merchants and were stored in their houses in the settlement and later buried in the ruins of these houses.