Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late ...

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 ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 ...

Instead, these tablets are written in the early cuneiform writing system. The tablets were identified within a large state archive building that was constructed from traditional mud-brick walls.

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

3 x 4.3 x 1.6 cm (1 1/8 x 1 3/4 x 5/8 in.) ...

4 x 5.6 x 1.5 cm (1 5/8 x 2 1/4 x 5/8 in.) ...

Setting the tablet on the table ... It was he who had made the decisive breakthrough in the decipherment of cuneiform writing; 50 years of age in 1860, he had just published the first volume ...

and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 ...