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

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used ... as the name of the period suggests, bronze tools were the main tools used, and copper ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

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

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 ...