Although the British Musuem acquired the tablets between 1892 and 1914, this recent breakthrough marks the first time the ...

According to New Atlas, this technique is similar to how the Mesopotamians stored data on cuneiform tablets, but instead of using reeds and clay tablets, the team used a compound called ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...