Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The script—not itself a language ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.

Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the ...

One writing in Akkadian on a cuneiform tablet, the other writing in Aramaic on ... During their exile years in Babylon the Jews adopted the Square Assyrian script which was commonly known to them as ...