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Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
- List of Cuneiform Signs
Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing,...
- Sumerian Language
Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native...
- Proto-Writing
The Kish tablet (c. 3500 BC) reflects the stage of...
- Achaemenid Royal Inscription
The decipherment of the Old Persian cuneiform script of the...
- Ugaritic Alphabet
The Ugaritic writing system is a Cuneiform Abjad,...
- Cuneiform (Unicode block)
In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered...
- Old Persian cuneiform
Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script...
- Proto-cuneiform
The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing...
- List of Cuneiform Signs
Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing. It used wedge -shaped marks on clay tablets , made by a reed stylus . The name cuneiform itself means "wedge shaped", from the Latin cuneus "wedge" and forma "shape".
Learn how to write cuneiform – the oldest form of writing in the world – with curator Irving Finkel, using just a lolly stick and a piece of clay to master the ancient script!
The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in modern times were copied from the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in the ruins of Persepolis , with the first complete and accurate copy being published in 1778 by Carsten Niebuhr .
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