It went through major evolutionary changes during its lifetime and became known as cuneiform ... the written representation of the Sumerian language. It was written in clay using a reed stylus.

But researchers at the British Museum, where the tablet is housed, have carried out deeper analysis to decipher the map and uncover the biblical references within the ancient cuneiform language.

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

He runs a page, where he regularly makes Assyrian language posts on vocabulary and grammar. His posts are illustrated by diagrams with Assyrian, Arabic, English and Ancient Assyrian (Cuneiform ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...