CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca ... discovered at Bisitun Pass in Iran was an early key to deciphering cuneiform script.

It was found that the markings on the tablet followed the cuneiform script. The ancient script which originated in the Middle East was used to create many languages like Sumerian and Akkadian.

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 ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...