The first morning he had six Arabs at work, and found alabaster slabs with cuneiform inscriptions.

It is about seven inches high, barrel-shaped, and covered with inscriptions in the cuneiform character, disposed in vertical lines, and affording a positive example of an indented surface produced by mechanical impression.

For many centuries the cuneiform writing was literally a dead letter to the learned world.

A very learned lady who is writing a historical book has commissioned me to collect all the literature relating to the Tell el Amarna lettersthe cuneiform tablets, you know, of Amenhotep the Fourth.

A copy of the cuneiform text will be found in the "Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia," Vol.

About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made, and in the wedge-shaped notch punk was placed.

Only in this way can we account for the surprising fact that the Babylonian cuneiform script and the Babylonian language form the means of communication between the east and west and between Egypt and Canaan.

Go back far enough and you'll find cuneiform etchings bemoaning the current Sumerian go-go lifestyle with its insistence on myths with plotlines and characters and action, not like we had in the old days.