Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.

Collection documents work done as part of the project and includes digital images and information on cuneiform tablets. Also correspondence and materials relating to cuneiform tablet research and administrative issues surrounding collections including repatriation.

Cuneiform tablets (tablets made of clay, stone, metal, or wax, and inscribed with a wedge-shaped stylus) from the Old Babylonian period in ancient Mesopotamia, roughly the site of modern Iraq. Most are records of business transactions.