I had a fun lot of learning about Sumerian, Akkadian, Cuneiform, and ancient literature. It was really cool reading about the theories behind the languages, where everything came from, how it evolved, and how people are digitizing the writings so they can be more easily studied!

Sources:

• Anderson, Sean Eron, and Marc Levoy. "Unwrapping and Visualizing Cuneiform Tablets."
• Damerow, Peter. "The origins of writing as a problem of historical epistemology." (1999).
• Foster, Benjamin R. "Humor and cuneiform literature." Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 6.1 (1974): 2238.
• Hamdany, Arwa Hamed Salih, Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima, and Lubab H. Albak. "Translating cuneiform symbols using artificial neural network." Telkomnika 19.2 (2021): 438-443.
• Jauhiainen, Tommi, et al. "Language and dialect identification of cuneiform texts." arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01891 (2019).
• Kenanidis, Ioannis, and Evangelos C. Papakitsos. "Yet another suggestion about the origins of the Sumerian language." International Journal of Linguistics 5.5 (2013): 30.
• Michalowski, Piotr. "The lives of the Sumerian language." Margins of writing, origins of cultures (2006): 159-84.