Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

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 ...

Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets ... the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal’s library. Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of writing ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper ... Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

As per the study, the round clay tablet at 3.2 inches in diameter features a right triangle with cuneiform figures corresponding to the length, height, and area. The math indicates that the area ...

When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the ...