A museum worker wearing gloves holds up a cuneiform clay tablet, one of a collection of over 100, on display at a museum in Jerusalem. EPA/Jim Hollander Cuneiform made headlines recently with the ...

The man in the center with the full white beard is Mr. Finkel, an expert on cuneiform writing. The British Museum has 130,000 cuneiform clay tablets waiting to be deciphered. Finkel has a clay tablet ...

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 capable of ...

Cuneiform cookies? Yes, they are a thing. Though it has been centuries since Akkadian was spoken, cuneiform writing has had an unexpected burst of popularity as a cookie decoration. The idea started ...

A recently discovered clay tablet telling part of the Epic of Gilgamesh in cuneiform. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his ...

The Egyptians thought literacy was divine, a benefaction which came from the baboon-faced god Thoth. In fact the earliest known script - cuneiform - came from Uruk, a Mesopotamian settlement on the ...