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 ...

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 ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy. Ancient Mesopotamian maths was based on 60, which is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour This tablet ...

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 ...

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 ...

In The Library of Ancient Wisdom, Selena Wisnom takes a thrilling trip back to Mesopotamia, birthplace of horoscopes and ...

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 ...

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