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Across the ancient southern Levant, some cylinder seals carried inscriptions that looked like cuneiform but could not be fully read as proper text. These "fake cuneiform seals" were not simple ...

According to Dr. Irving Finkel, Curator and Assyriologist, the earliest evidence for writing was in southern Mesopotamia around 3200–3350 BC during the late Uruk period. These first clay texts didn’t ...

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For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many over 4,000 years old and written in languages that ...

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This project aims to build a comprehensive pipeline for digitizing, annotating, and translating cuneiform tablets. We combine computer vision, natural language processing, and domain expertise to ...

Cuneiform, which originated in ancient Mesopotamia, is known as the oldest writing system in human history. However, did you know that this mysterious script is surrounded by numerous urban legends?