The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a ...

Most of the early clay tablets in our collection ... You can see very clearly how a reed stylus has pressed the marks into the soft clay, which has then been baked hard so that it is now a ...

A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said. Found near ...

cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets. Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of stone objects as well. Different ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...

The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East before being acquired by the British Museum in 1882. Ever since its finding ...

The map was a clay tablet that was created somewhere between 2,600 to 2,900 years ago. During that time, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was leading the advances in architecture, science, and mathematics.

The trickery is featured on the 11th tablet of Gilgamesh, dating back to 700BC. A Babylonian retelling of Noah and the Ark on a 3,000-year-old clay tablet could be one of the oldest example of ...