Beyond her academic work, Moudhy has also been a prominent figure on social media because of her fascinating translations of the first form of writing known as cuneiform.

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Now, experts have found a link between these cylinders and proto-cuneiform - the first symbol-based script which emerged around 1,000 years later. Researchers from the University of Bologna ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

They also found remains of buildings and three clay tablets. The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age found in the region. Cuneiform is a writing system from ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A digital tool, Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig), provides extensive online access to Hittite cuneiform texts, significantly aiding researchers ...