Furthermore, the same texts are also available online on the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc) platform. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals project gave a boost to the ...

The world’s oldest writing – older than any alphabet – is cuneiform, first used by the ... others say “Interpret these runes”, and on one from Orkney, someone has written: “These ...