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.

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...

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.

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet with an early form of writing that preserves a furniture shopping list from around 3,500 years ago.

Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing, first used more than 5000 years ago—predating Egyptian hieroglyphics. Writers would press the sides of a reed stylus into a clay tablet to create a ...

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.

A team of researchers led by Abigail Mann at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia have developed storage tech that beats binary by being 4x denser. They used a new technique to store data on ...

CREDIT: Courtesy of CDLI – Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Proto-cuneiform is among the earliest known forms of human writing and appeared within this need to keep track of trade.

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia ...