Australian researchers create a new data storage technique that uses nanometer precision to store data in ternary format.

Humans Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857.

Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could ...

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 ...

Enuma Elish, a Babylonian Epic of Creation, written on cuneiform tablets in Sumero-Akkadian script in the 7th century BC A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict missing ...

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 ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. Instead of photos, the AI system uses 3D models of the tablets, delivering ...

Christian activists running the company wanted artifacts from the “Biblical era.” Hobby Lobby, the US crafts supply company known for its pro-Christian branding, apparently has a side interest ...

Researchers translated the cuneiform writing, which is characterized by symbols gouged into moist clay. Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet ...

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.