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 ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello ...

CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca ... It implicitly challenged the perception that cuneiform tablets were used merely for basic accounting, such as tallying grain, rather than for complex astronomical ...

Excavators discovered the tablet during construction work ... Akkadian was written in cuneiform, a system invented by the Sumerians that involves engraving pictograms and symbols into clay with ...

Babylonians and Sumerians, and is often referred to as the "cradle of civilization." "What cuneiform scholars do is decipher ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets in order to recover knowledge about ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian ... created the distinctive wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets. The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears ...

the tablet contains text written in cuneiform, an ancient script generally considered to be the oldest known writing system. Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region ...