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

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy ... ephemeral documents that cover many aspects of life in Mesopotamia, state and private – from beer rations to heroic ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to ... be E-Nasir's residence. The tablets were deciphered by American ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

The cuneiform tablets probably come from Sippar ... In Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia, there was a strong belief that celestial events could predict the future. People believed that ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings.

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

It was not until 1857 that the decipherment of cuneiform was completed. Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859 ...