You just read three cuneiform signs. Cuneiform doesn't double consonants — together, they spell —
Ancient writing, reimagined.
Forty-four signs across four levels. Each sign carries audio, history, and the real tablets it appears on. Built by one person who couldn't find a way to read cuneiform.
Cuneiform was written by pressing a triangular reed stylus into wet clay. Click anywhere on the tablet — leave a mark of your own.
You're holding the same tool a scribe in Uruk held in 3100 BCE. The app teaches you what the marks mean.
Nineveh · c. 700 BCE · British Museum (K.3375)
A flood story written down a thousand years before Genesis. Found in the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, translated by George Smith in 1872 — and the front page of every newspaper that week.
Photograph: British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Babylon · c. 1754 BCE · Musée du Louvre (Sb 8)
Two hundred and eighty-two laws carved onto a seven-foot basalt stele. "An eye for an eye" is one of them. So is the world's earliest building code: if a house collapses and kills the owner, the builder shall be put to death.
Photograph: Musée du Louvre · Public Domain
Sippar · c. 700–600 BCE · British Museum (BM 92687)
The oldest known map of the world. A flat disc surrounded by a circular sea — the "Bitter River" — with Babylon at its centre and seven triangular regions at the edges, each a double-hour journey from the next.
Photograph: British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Tell Ea-nāṣir: Nanni sends the following message. When you came, you said to me as follows: "I will give fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me.
— Tablet UET 5 81 · Ur, southern Mesopotamia · c. 1750 BCE · British Museum (1953,0411.71). Photograph CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Nanni's letter survived because it was pressed into wet clay and then, by accident, baked when the merchant's house burned down. The complaint outlived the merchant, the city, and the language. The wedges are still legible. The app teaches you to read them.
The entire ancient writing system, distilled into a path. You start with vowels — four signs — and end reading numerical tablets the way temple accountants did in 2400 BCE.
Five tiers of mastery, rendered in the actual materials a Mesopotamian scribe would have known — from the clay tablet of an apprentice to the gold seal of a court astronomer. Each tier carries a sign you'll learn along the way.
First Clay — the single wedge a scribe pressed first.
Syllable Scholar — all sixteen syllable signs learned.
Number Sage — counting like a Babylonian.
Complete Codex — all forty-four signs known.
Grand Mastery — the sign for great, fully earned.
Tap a sign. Hear it read aloud. Discover the tablets it appears on. Earn the next material when you're ready.
Tap dingir — god. Hear it spoken. See the eight related signs that share its root: lugal, en, ama, gal, tur, and more.
Mastery tracks three dimensions: recognition, auditory, production. The app shows you which one to drill next — because cuneiform isn't only read, it's also written and heard.
Earn Clay through Gold across four paths: Scribe's Path, Keeper's Watch, Explorer's Journey, Scholar's Craft. No streak shame. No leaderboard pressure. Just the work.
Ancient writing, reimagined.
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