Linguists used Akkadian writing on bilingual cuneiform tablets from Iraq to translate the text in Amorite, an unknown language, study said. Rudolf H. Mayr Photo from the Rosen Collection used with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tablets were found in Iraq about 30 years ago. Scholars started studying them in 2016 and discovered they contain details in ...

Ignace J. Gelb, 78, professor emeritus of Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, was a leading authority on the development of writing. He was one of the few people in the world who could decipher ...

Two ancient clay tablets discovered in Iraq and covered from top to bottom in cuneiform writing contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew. The ...