Old Persian language

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).

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian

German epigraphist and philologist

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

German orientalist (1820-1905)

cuneiform writing of the Elamite language

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

Characters of Unicode block Old Persian