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The 106 pages that link to Cuneiform, each with the reason it gives.

• Amarna lettersNarrower topic: Scribes recorded most of the correspondence on clay using this script.

• Epic of GilgameshNarrower topic: Clay tablets bearing cuneiform preserve the epic’s fragmentary textual witnesses.

• BabylonNarrower topic: Clay tablets written in cuneiform preserve much of what is known about Babylon.

• Sumerian languageNarrower topic: Sumerian is the earliest language known to have been written in this system.

• Behistun InscriptionNarrower topic: All three language versions use forms of this script.

• NinevehNarrower topic: Deciphering cuneiform made Nineveh’s royal texts and library accessible to modern scholarship.

• Cyrus CylinderNarrower topic: Scribes used cuneiform signs to inscribe the cylinder’s text.

• Library of AshurbanipalNarrower topic: The tablets in Ashurbanipal’s collection were written in this script.

• AshurbanipalNarrower topic: The tablets collected under Ashurbanipal’s orders were written in cuneiform.

• HattusaNarrower topic: Hattusa’s archives used cuneiform to record administration, treaties, and ritual.

• Babylonian ChroniclesNarrower topic: Chronicle tablets use cuneiform signs to record concise historical entries.

• BabyloniaNarrower topic: Babylonian scribes used cuneiform to record law, trade, literature, and astronomical observations.

• Old Babylonian periodNarrower topic: Babylonian scribes used cuneiform for administration, law, literature, and scholarship.

• GilgameshNarrower topic: Clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform preserve the epic’s surviving text.

• NimrudNarrower topic: Cuneiform records from Nimrud preserve royal, administrative, and scholarly activity.

• UgaritNarrower topic: Ugarit’s alphabetic tablets used cuneiform-shaped signs rather than the region’s usual syllabic script.

• Ur-NammuNarrower topic: The laws and royal inscriptions associated with him survive in cuneiform.

• NabonidusNarrower topic: Babylonian inscriptions and chronicles preserve the main contemporary evidence for Nabonidus’s reign.

• Hanging Gardens of BabylonNarrower topic: Assyrian inscriptions provide evidence for royal gardens but do not securely identify Babylon’s legendary wonder.

• Hormuzd RassamNarrower topic: Rassam’s finds supplied tablets and inscriptions that scholars could read through cuneiform studies.

• Royal Game of UrNarrower topic: The tablet preserving the game's rules was written in cuneiform.

• Middle Assyrian EmpireNarrower topic: Cuneiform records preserve the laws, treaties, and administrative texts of the empire.

• Bedřich HroznýNarrower topic: Hittite texts were written with this broader script tradition.

• HurriansNarrower topic: Most surviving written evidence for Hurrian comes from cuneiform tablets.

• GutiansNarrower topic: The surviving written accounts of Gutian rule were recorded in Mesopotamian cuneiform traditions.

• History of the alphabetNarrower topic: Earlier cuneiform traditions provide a contrast to the alphabet's smaller, sound-based sign inventories.

• Tiglath-Pileser INarrower topic: Royal records of his reign were written in this ancient script.

• EnmerkarNarrower topic: Cuneiform tablets are the medium through which Enmerkar’s poems reached modern times.

• Jemdet Nasr periodNarrower topic: Jemdet Nasr proto-writing precedes the mature system’s standardized cuneiform signs.

• Kesh Temple HymnNarrower topic: Scribes recorded the hymn’s words by impressing signs into clay tablets.

• Lugal-zage-siNarrower topic: The inscriptions documenting his rule were transmitted in this script.

• TapputiNarrower topic: The surviving account of Tapputi was written in this script.