Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly noted that script first emerged in Macedonia. It’s actually Mesopotamia.

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE ...

The researchers looked for — and found — correlations between many seals and proto cuneiform signs. For instance, they found proto cuneiform matches with seal images of things like linen and pottery.

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs called proto-cuneiform. It first appeared around 3350 to 3000 BC in the city of Uruk, in modern southern Iraq.

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

By 2,400 BC, cuneiform had been adapted for writing Akkadian, and later was used for writing Assyrian and Babylonian; these are all Semitic languages, as are present-day Arabic and Hebrew.

"Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform script document the political, social, economic, and scientific history of ancient Mesopotamia," the report said. "Yet, most of ...

Specifically, this AI is being used to translate tablets with Akkadian texts using cuneiform script, some of which date back to 2,500 BCE. It's like a super Google Translate.

Enuma Elish, a Babylonian Epic of Creation, written on cuneiform tablets in Sumero-Akkadian script in the 7th century BC A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict missing ...