In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears to have served as an itemized receipt. Written in Akkadian cuneiform, the ancient inscription describes the purchase of a ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in Turkey, unearthing a 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet that provides a ...

In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the cuneiform tablets. Such dockets gave brief indication of names and dates and a summary of the contents which were useful to merchants.

Clay tablets and cuneiform writing These clay tablets contain texts written in cuneiform writing. The Sumerians developed the cuneiform writing system around 3500-2600 BCE. Cuneiform signs gradually ...

JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form of wedges, the Latin word for which ...

The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia. Scholars discovered the epic ...

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 ...

Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were rolled across clay tablets to print ... own language — and Akkadian written in cuneiform became the common ...

The patterned cuneiform tablet was discovered in the Middle East before being acquired by the British Museum in 1882. Ever since it was found people have tried to figure out what the map-like ...