Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions () 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).

extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia

language of ancient Sumer

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East or West Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. The site lies 93 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur, 108 kilometers (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur, and 24 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of ancient Larsa.

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian

Ugaritic ( ) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle. The script is described as “a special alphabetic Cuneiform,” reflecting an idiom related to Canaanite and Hebrew languages.

extinct ancient Indo-European language

Extinct Semitic language spoken in Ebla

British politician (1810-1895)

writing medium

extinct language of Turkey

Cuneiform consonantal alphabet of 30 letters

German epigraphist and philologist

extinct language family

unicameral cuneiform semi-syllabary used to write the Old Persian language

thumb|Babylonokia Babylonokia (also Babylon-Nokia, Alien-Mobile, and Cuneiform Mobile Phone) is a 2012 artwork by Karl Weingärtner in the form of a clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone, its keys and screen showing cuneiform script.

limestone tablet with proto-cuneiform Sumerian inscriptions

Ganjnameh () is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of meters across Mount Alvand. The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The inscription on the upper left was created on the order of Achaemenid King Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).

cuneiform writing of the Elamite language

Unicode block (U+12480-1254F)

Unicode block (U+12000-123FF)

symbolic item buried under foundations to consecrate the building in Sumerian culture

ancient script

Unicode block (U+12400-1247F) containing numbers and punctuation signs for the ancient Cuneiform script

ancient prism inscribed with Sumerian kings

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

Digital database of Sumerian texts

ancient Assyria lion statues

The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia c. 3350–3200 BC (during the Uruk period), eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the region's Early Dynastic I period.

international digital library project aimed at putting text and images of recovered cuneiform tablets online

pair of twin Hurrian foundation documents, one on display in the Louvre and the other in New York