These clay records are incredibly detailed ... As Rey tells the Independent’s Bryony Gooch, the tablets “record all aspects ...

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 ...

But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved by the heat. When the ruins of the library were ...

The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural handbook ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir. This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint.

A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced a raised impression when rolled on a clay tablet or envelope. Cylinder seals were used to protect vessels, clay envelopes and ...

They were written thousands of years ago on clay tablets. This Sumerian King List prism is from around 2004BC-1595BC. The Sumerian King List is a group of clay prisms with names of Sumerian cities ...

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 ...

A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced a raised impression when rolled on a clay tablet or envelope. Cylinder seals were used to protect vessels, clay envelopes and ...