The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing ... of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy.

Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets ... the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal’s library. Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of writing ...

One of the two clay tablets is 4.5cm high and dates from around 3,000 BC. The other measures 3.2 cm and originates from the Irin/Eridu region in southern Iraq. It dates from 1,900-1,700 BC.

The computer system reads photographs of clay cuneiform tablets, then adjusts by computationally overlaying the images atop ones with similar features, and whose meaning is known. Because the system ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...