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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

That was writing. A Babylonian tucked his curled black beard out of the way and with a wedge-tipped stylus stamped cuneiform characters into soft clay bricks, which he later baked and for security ...

The cuneiform tablet, measuring 4.2 by 3.5 centimeters ... The distinctive wedge-shaped characters were created by highly ...

Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing ... Highly educated scribes created the distinctive wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets. The newly found tablet, which dates back ...