But that’s just the start of it. Unlike modern alphabets, which rely on a limited number of characters, cuneiform has over a ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

It was not until 1857 that the decipherment of cuneiform was completed. Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859 ...