Welcome to Write Cuneiform!
This website is a work-in-progress website that intends to provide resources for reading, deciphering, and writing your own cuneiform tablets!
Draw Cuneiform Script
The canvas below has been created to help draw the cuneiform script. It is still quite bare bones, but I hope to improve this to make an easy tool for writing cuneiform on a computer! You may simply drag to draw, and the computer will keep your lines straight.About
Cuneiform is the world's oldest form of writing that still exists to this day! Cuneiform tablets were made by using reeds to make indents into clay tablets, and some of the tablets we have found date all the way back to 3400 BCE (over 5000 years ago!). Most of this writing was done by people from Mesopotamia, which falls in Iraq in our modern day.
According to Irving Finkel, a historian who has spent much of his life deciphering these tablets, cuneiform writing shows many signs that the people that lived 5000 years ago are exactly the same people that live today! I personally have made the mistake of thinking about people from history as almost a different species due to their lack of modern technology. On the contrary, these cuneiform tablets give us direct evidence of the intelligence of people from ancient times, and the vibrance of their culture! In order for us to get a glimpse into their lives, there is no better way than to learn their writing and language.
Join the Community!
While we are still early in the development of this website, we have high aspirations to develop it into a rich resource for people that wish to learn about reading, writing, and deciphering cuneiform tablets. If you would like to join in the effort to create these resources, we'd love to have you join us! We have created a Discord community to organise this, and you can join us there by clicking this link. Everyone is welcome, no matter your background, level of expertise, or age!