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

Those recently unearthed will be housed at the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, where they will be further studied. The highly informative cuneiform tablets not only shed light on the day-to-day goings on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Smith spent hours at the museum studying the clay tablets and ... an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form of wedges, the Latin word ...

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

These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols ... The finds will go to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad. It’s possible they could be loaned to the British Museum in the future once ...