An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Well, this most ancient document – like all its neighbours in the British Museum – deserves more than a quick glance. It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world ...

Though not a museum employee, Rawlinson was a frequent presence in the department's workroom. It was he who had made the decisive breakthrough in the decipherment of cuneiform writing; 50 years of ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous warnings, including one that prophesies, “a king will die.” According to a ...

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford possesses about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students used instead of paper to solve their math problems. Upon closer ...

Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written ... to the London Borough of Wembley and it formed the foundation of the Brent Museum.

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets ...