Bilingual babel: cuneiform texts in two or more languages from ancient Mesopotamia and beyond

Ancient Mesopotamia was the birthplace of the earliest known writing system. It was also a land of ethnolinguistic diversity, that inclued Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, and an increasingly large number of speakers of Semitic languages. A cuneiform spread throughout Mesopotamia and into neighboring regions, it was adapted to write Semitic and other languages, and bilingual and even trilingual cuneiform tablets were produced