Discover Cuneiform is built on the work of scholars and institutions who have made cuneiform accessible to the digital age. Here's what we use and how.
We use the ORACC Sign List (OSL) as our primary source for cuneiform sign data. This includes sign names, Unicode codepoints, phonetic readings, and meanings.
Maintained by: Steve Tinney & Niek Veldhuis, University of Pennsylvania
Famous tablet texts, transliterations, and translations in our Explore mode come from CDLI's extensive digital library of cuneiform texts.
Maintained by: UCLA, Max Planck Institute, and partner institutions
We link to eBL for users who want to explore literary texts in greater depth. eBL provides scholarly editions of Babylonian literature.
Maintained by: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
All cuneiform characters are rendered using the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block (U+12000–U+123FF), ensuring compatibility across devices and platforms.
Maintained by: Unicode Consortium