The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

As the need arose to communicate more complex ideas, the script found uses outside of administrative purposes and became the written representation of the Sumerian language. It was written in clay ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.

He travelled to the Zagros Mountains, where there was a trilingual inscription in old Persian cuneiform, Elamite, and Sumerian ... as a cipher encoding a known language (for which he had to ...