A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in cuneiform clay tablets, as well as ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. Over time, the symbols became ...

The human obsession with frightening creatures has given rise to ancient tales of dragons and werewolves, as well as to the ...

Setting the tablet on the table ... It was he who had made the decisive breakthrough in the decipherment of cuneiform writing; 50 years of age in 1860, he had just published the first volume ...

INTRODUCTION Egyptologists have made one cardinal mistake by including human beings with white complexions as Pharaohs in ...

How we know this comes from clay tablets inscribed with one of humanity’s earliest writing systems: cuneiform. And what they tell us is that the ancients drank brew in large quantities.

Shopping lists are essential for making sure nothing is missed out during a shopping trip so people don't end up getting in the front door and annoyingly realising they've forgotten something.