Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
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Directors
- Émilie Pagé-Perron
- Jacob L. Dahl
- Bertrand Lafont
- Jürgen Renn
- Robert K. Englund
- Peter Damerow
Description
From the project website (2026-01-21):
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC. A number of these artifacts are currently kept in public and private collections to exceed 500,000 exemplars, of which now more than 400,000 have been catalogued in electronic form by the CDLI.
By making the form and content of cuneiform texts available online, the CDLI is opening pathways to the rich historical tradition of the ancient Middle East. In close collaboration with researchers, museums and an engaged public, the project seeks to unharness the extraordinary content of these earliest witnesses to our shared world heritage.