A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the artist explores the unique qualities of ASL through drawing, video and ...

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” you may consider pursuing a creative writing degree. You don’t need a college degree to become a writer—in his memoir On Writing ...

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

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 ...

Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters. The appearance of these characters can vary across eras ...

The first element of good style is clearness, and this may or may not be combined with literary elegance. It is usual to regard a split infinitive as a sign of indifference to pure English, yet ...