When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

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 ...

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.

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings. The tablets ...

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859-1937).

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets ...