First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the Sumerian city of Girsu in modern-day Iraq ... However, they’re inscribed in different languages, with one bearing cuneiform, and the other ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of writing according to the scientific community, the earliest form of written communication emerged approximately 5,500 years ago. Initially, it involved simple ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

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 ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...

but far less attention is paid to people who study the civilisations who wrote in the cuneiform script, such as the Sumerians and the Babylonians. The mesmerising marks in clay tablets that make ...