Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
UCLA College of Letters and Science, Humanities Division
Primary contact
Robert K. Englund
Professor of Assyriology
Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
(310) 825 8506
englund@ucla.edu
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Additional project researchers
Peter Damerow
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Stephen Davison
Head, UCLA Digital Library Program
Cale Johnson, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, and Research Associate, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Project description
In an ongoing Humanities collaboration known as the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), linguists, museum curators, historians of science and information technology experts led by research teams at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, are making available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of Babylonian civilization in the mid-first millennium BC.
CDLI has been supported with generous funding from UCLA’s Division of Humanities and the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures; the Max Planck Society; the National Science Foundation; the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Institute for Museum and Library Service. Special thanks are due the Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC, for their partnerships in creating educational content in Babylonian history for young learners.
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