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

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The survey of the tablets was carried out to look for references to aurorae, that might match the evidence from tree ring ...

An Assyrian cuneiform tablet, dating to the nineteenth century BC, recovered in Kayseri Province, Turkey, recording the repayment of a loan valued at nine-and-a-half minas (about 5.4 kilogrammes) of ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years old. These clay tablets reveal much about the daily life of people in this part of the ancient world, recording everything from the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian ... the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal’s library. Written in cuneiform, the world ...