John Heise explains the cuneiform writing system on clay tablets, the language, the grammar. Some texts examples with transliteration and explanation are presented. Bibliography.

The Library holds 27 cuneiform tablets and cones from ancient Mesopotamia, none of which had been translated until two seniors in Visiting Professor Alice Slotsky's class, Ancient Scientific Writings: Akkadian, undertook an elective project to decipher two of the tablets.

A parser for finite Akkadian verbs, with the parsing engine written in Prolog.