• Cuneiform 2000
  • CUNEIFORM 2000 is a famous Russian software width established traditions. It combines broad experience acquired by Russian scientists with the most advanced achievements in the field of optical recognition as cognitive analysis algorithm, adaptive recognition of characters, meridian segmentation of tables, neuron nets, etc.
• RD-Akkadian
  • The RD-Akkadian is a scaleable font in True Type Font mode which should answer all your transliteration needs. This font is provided with a template which anyone can personalise to their need in order to facilitate their utilisation. With certain word processors, such as MS Word, a drop down menu is added to the template and lists the characters that you use most frequently. This menu list includes keyboard shortcuts which are even more convenient. Installation guides are provided with the font and any complementary explanations will be given on demand. The RD-TimesScholar could become your standard font as it also produces the 'normal' characters so that you do not have to select another font when you type both in English and Akkadian transliteration.

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• About Cuneiform Writing
  • Sumerians created cuneiform
    script over 5000 years ago. It was the world's first written language. The last known cuneiform inscription was written in 75 AD.
• Cuneiform99
  • Scan and Recognize (OCR) in seconds!  It is a furiously fast, unbelievably accurate and easy to use OCR. It's a totally new product designed for Windows XP/2000/NT Windows ME/95/98!  CuneiForm '99 is loaded with features such as OLE automation, Drag&Drop, direct Word export and many more.
• Cuneiform.net
  • Cuneiform is an extremely complicated but ingenious writing system that was used throughout Western Asia for over three thousand years down into the first century AD. The script was most usually written with a cut reed on wet clay . . .
• Cuneiform Numbers
  • Cuneiform numbers were written using a combination of just two signs: a vertical wedge for '1' and a corner wedge for '10'. Handwriting varied as much in Old Babylonian times as it does now but the basic system of numbers is illustrated on this page.
• Journal of Cuneiform Studies
  • Founded in 1947 by the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JCS) presents technical and general articles on the history and languages of the ancient Mesopotamian and Anatolian literate cultures. Articles appear in English, French, and German. Published once a year; circa 144 pages per issue.
• Write Like A Babylonian