Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across clay ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze ...

With a wedge-shaped pen, a scribe sat down with a clay tablet and began writing. Dividing the tablet in half, the mysterious author wrote the same message in two different languages. It was an ...

(Critic’s Notebook): LONDON — The writing’s on the wall, we’re told. Whether it was Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press in the 15th century, the invention of the typewriter 300 years later, or the ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This clay tablet from ancient ...

Linguists used Akkadian writing on bilingual cuneiform tablets from Iraq to translate the text in Amorite, an unknown language, study said. Rudolf H. Mayr Photo from the Rosen Collection used with ...

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