Damascus, (SANA) The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC. This alphabet was found ...

This tablet is the only evidence of a school text in the cuneiform alphabet outside Ugarit. The other two inscriptions found in present-day Israel may represent a local Canaanite dialect and a writing ...

Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could ...

Joining Rajan Datar to discuss cuneiform script are Professor Eleanor Robson of University College London, Dr Mark Weeden of SOAS, University of London and Ahmed Naji, author of 'Under The Palm ...

Experts say the items—a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a prism used to teach children the cuneiform alphabet—are at least 4,000 years old.

Cuneiform tablets, estimated to number about 1 million globally, are artifacts dating back over 5,000 years, making them among the oldest surviving written records.

In their new approach, the researchers used 3D models of nearly 2,000 cuneiform tablets, including around 50 from a collection at MLU. According to estimates, around one million such tablets still ...