The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...

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 ...

The researchers anticipated making marginal and indirect connections, but instead they identified seal images that appeared ...

Now, experts have linked early cuneiform symbols to designs that appear on cylinder seals between 4400-3400BC, a millennium earlier. Similar images representing words such as wine vessels ...

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 ...