Ancient Writing of Mesopotamia

Ancient writing was probably invented in Mesopotamia in the form of cuneiform; but it is not the only nor the most interesting of the ancient writing forms out of the middle and near eastern parts of our world.

Akkadian and Cuneiform - Cuneiform as the Script for Akkadian
Was Akkadian on Clay Tablets the Earliest Known Rendering of Language? About.com's guide to ancient history, N.S. Gill, responds.

Behistun Inscription (Iraq)
The Behistun inscription is a "rosetta stone" for Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian language.

Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History
This brief book, part of Routledge's series entitled Approaching the Ancient World, takes as its primary mission to investigate the practices of Mesopotamian historians, and to use their data as expressed in the cuneiform texts to make inferences concerning the political and economic history

Cuneiform
One of the earliest forms of writing, cuneiform was (probably) invented in Uruk, Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.

Kuttamuwa Stele
The Kuttamuwa stele is from an Iron Age residential structure in Zincirli, dated to the 8th century BC, the Neo-Hittite period to be specific, and written in Samalian Aramaic.

Library of Ashurbanipal
The Library of Ashurbanipal is a collection of clay tablets written during the Mesopotamian king Ashurbanipal's reign between about 668-627 BC.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
A work-in-progress by an international group of Assyriologists, the CDLI plans to make all the cuneiform texts available on the Internet, photos and English translations. Lots of fun for us geeks.

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