Gojko Barjamovic not only deciphered the ancient recipes but also attempted to recreate some of the dishes described in them.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform ...

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 a new report published in the Journal of Cuneiform ... tablets, learn about 44 more ancient artifacts that reveal the history of our ancestors. Then, learn about the Rosetta Stone and how ...

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...

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 ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

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 ...