This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

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Also because the 22 letter Aramaic alphabet was much easier to master than the 600 or so signs of the cuneiform. The evidence of the side-by-side existence of ... reasons have gone through drastic ...

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Edwardes, Martin 2018. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. p. 1.

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

Although the British Musuem acquired the tablets between 1892 and 1914, this recent breakthrough marks the first time the cuneiform has been completely translated and linked to a system of astrono ...

Let CBBC's Naomi Wilkinson bring the alphabet to life with this memorable song and movement routine. This song might also help pupils learning English as an additional language. This Bitesize ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet during post-earthquake restoration work at the ancient city of Alalah. The tablet, dating to the Late Bronze Age ...

This cuneiform tablet found at the Alalah excavation site in Turkey likely served as a Bronze Age ... [+] itemized receipt for furniture. In the 15th century BCE, an ancient accountant recorded a ...

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map ...