according to scholars who recently made breakthroughs in translating cuneiform tablets housed at the British Museum in London. “Imagine you’re [an ancient] farmer—you’re out there ...

Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching ...

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 ...

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally ... “We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as Hittites spoke Anatoian, but these people ...

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 ...

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An ancient game board ... The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the University of Central ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...