Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...

In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the cuneiform tablets. Such dockets gave brief indication of names and dates and a summary of the contents which were useful to merchants.

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia ... archaeologists have since discovered much older cuneiform tablets with similar flood ...

Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian ...

Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...

The tablet is written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of ... version was found in the ruins of the library of an Assyrian king, Assur Banipal, in northern Iraq.

The content of this cuneiform document has not been conclusively determined! It seems to be a contract that presumably relates to the royal house1, since the seal of the Assyrian king Eriba-Adad I was ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...

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 ...