The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...

British Museum ME118882; photo by Greta Van Buylaere Imagine you are a young Mesopotamian scribe about to uncover the mysteries of cuneiform, the earliest known writing system. But instead of writing ...

The archive of cuneiform clay tablets from Bogazköy (ancient Hattusas) presents the only extant recorded material about the civilization of Hittites, one of the most powerful political organisations ...

Line Detection: Using Image processing techniques, line intendations are found on Cuneiform rgb images. To compile: README, For the theory: Wiki Object Detection: Using maskrcnn Cuneiform characters ...