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 ...

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This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

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A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia ...

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British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map ...

Although the British Musuem acquired the tablets between 1892 and 1914, this recent breakthrough marks the first time the cuneiform has been completely translated and linked to a system of astrono ...

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