The Babylonian tablet has a circular map with pieces of text written in cuneiform - an ancient writing system that used wedge-shaped symbols - which describes the early creation of the world.

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 ...

In the 15th century BCE, an ancient accountant recorded a furniture order of more than 200 wooden tables, chairs and footstools. How do we know this? From a tiny cuneiform tablet discovered in ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... You’ve got a civil service here, starting to come into place in order to record what is going on. Here is very clearly the state paying ...

Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text in the ancient style of cuneiform which used wedge-shaped symbols, has unlocked a mythical world of monsters and beasts.

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