Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

Many Assyrian tablets have been found with Aramaic inscribed on them. Assyrian scribes are often depicted in pairs. One writing in Akkadian on a cuneiform tablet, the other writing in Aramaic on a ...

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets ... time to write a number of languages other than Sumerian, most notably Akkadian, a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and ...

The Akkadians adopted the Sumerian system of writing but applied it to their own language — and Akkadian written in cuneiform became the common written language of Mesopotamia for more than ...

and excavated tablets inscribed in both Greek and Akkadian show that at least a few of these visiting astronomers even tried to master the art of writing cuneiform. But the end was near.

The minister added the newly discovered relic appeared to be written in Akkadian, a type of cuneiform. The British Museum says cuneiform script is the oldest form of writing in the world.