where the Gilgamesh tablets were stored. JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form ...

Cuneiform signs gradually spread and became the writing system for other languages spoken in the region, such as Akkadian. Cuneiform is the ... The world's oldest surviving literary work, the Epic of ...

A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets that ... The ...