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 ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings. The tablets ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859-1937).

But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved by the heat. When the ruins of the library were ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets ... These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello ...