Thanks to the discovery of a clay tablet at the site of the northern Assyrian frontier city of Tušhan, a previously unknown language has now been added to the list of those spoken by this ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...

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 ...

A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said. Found near ...

From a tiny cuneiform tablet discovered in southern Turkey that appears to have served as an itemized receipt for the large haul. While an ordinary object for its time, the clay tablet offers an ...

The map was a clay tablet that was created somewhere between 2,600 to 2,900 years ago. During that time, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was leading the advances in architecture, science, and mathematics.

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

It's on a little clay tablet, about four inches by three, made about five thousand years ago, and it's almost exactly the same shape as the mouse that controls your computer as you move it around ...

Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in Turkey is actually a 3,500-year-old receipt, on which someone ...

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

US authorities say the item was illegally imported into the US An ancient clay tablet displaying part of the story of a superhuman king has been formally handed over to Iraq by the US. Known as ...