The origins of cuneiform writing are believed to have arisen in the ancient city of Uruk, in what is now southern Iraq, around 4000 BC. Initially used as a simple system of record-keeping for trade ...

Fifteen other languages developed from cuneiform, including Old Persian, Akkadian and Elamite. It was taught as a classical or dead language for generations after it ceased to be a living language.

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system, that is to say one of the first physical and permanent representations of language, that was developed in the 4th millenium BC by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

The ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform, shown here on a clay tablet documenting barley rations issued monthly to adults and children. The language may have died out as a result of a 200-year ...

Xavier Tremblay, Phonology and Philology in a Cuneiform-written Language, Archiv für Orientforschung, Bd. 46/47 (1999/2000), pp. 216-226 ...

Because cuneiform was the first written language in the West, every sample of it represents a valuable cultural artifact that is virtually priceless.

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 ...

MR. KING'S modest little volume on the Assyrian language will, we believe, be welcomed by many who are not Assyriologists, because it contains a brief but lucid exposition of the principles upon ...

Newly Deciphered, 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Used Lunar Eclipses to Predict Major Events Ancient Babylonians linked astronomical phenomena to pestilence, the death of kings and the ...