this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon. It ...

There will be a dearth of flood ... on translating this ancient cuneiform, more revelations like this will surely come to light. In all, these translated tablets offer a unique insight into ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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 ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

They informed Sir Henry Rawlinson, the foremost cuneiform scholar of the time ... Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872, which alerted him to the existence of ...

He read of a flood, a ship caught on a mountain and ... hand that would later serve him so well in his work with cuneiform tablets. His work also exposed him to a wider world, for Bradbury and ...

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 ...