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 ...

Inscriptions on a set of four clay tablets from the ancient Near Eastern civilization of Babylonia have finally been completely deciphered, thousands of years after they were produced, a study reports ...

Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Researchers translated the cuneiform writing, which is characterized by symbols gouged into moist clay. Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in ...