Place each ancient invention on the grid by both when it appeared and which civilization made it, both must line up.
You're given a tray of ancient inventions and a grid whose axes are time periods and civilizations. Drop each invention into the cell where its era and its maker both match. Get every placement right on both axes, then check and score the round.
Cuneiform is about dating ancient inventions and attributing them to the right civilization, building a map of who invented what, when.
Dropping inventions into a grid of era against civilisation is the shape of a timeline of historic inventions, with two axes instead of one.
Requiring both the when and the who is the original demand.
Two axes catch the failure one axis hides. An invention can be dated correctly and attributed to the wrong culture, and the classic cases — cuneiform writing, the wheel, iron — are exactly those where popular attribution and the evidence part company.
Further reading: Both Must Line Up
Cuneiform is an original history puzzle about dating ancient inventions and attributing them to the right civilization. It's free to play in your browser, no install.
Most history quizzes ask one thing: when? Cuneiform asks two things about every tile at once, when it appeared and who made it, and it only nods if both are right. That small word "both" is the whole