The tablets became part of the British Museum's collection between 1892 and 1914 but had not been fully translated and published until now. In Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia, there was a ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

Three inscribed tablets found in Romania may be 1,000 years older than the oldest examples of writing from Mesopotamia. They are probably not that old, but they do illuminate the contacts between ...

In the British Museum, we look after about 130,000 written tablets from Mesopotamia, and scholars from all over the world come to study the collection. While experts are still working hard on the ...