This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and ...

How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World's First ... This is the background to the development of writing,' Bull said. Clay tablet tokens, used to record people's possessions and transactions ...

CULTURE: Sumerian ... deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than previously believed. The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

which produced a raised impression when rolled on a clay tablet or envelope. Cylinder seals were used to protect vessels, clay envelopes and storeroom door latches from tampering. They guaranteed ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed ... of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other ...