This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

Unbaked clay tablets could crumble ... from which he thought the Gilgamesh tablets had probably come. In fact, he had sold the idea of the expedition to the Daily Telegraph on the rather slender ...

Wisnom’s book recounts the labours of the excavators who uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments ... ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that survives today ...

Nanna. A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveals the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, ...

The character of Someone explains the resilience of the clay myth, starting from when “the goddess Aruru pinches off a clump of clay to make a human” (from the Epic of Gilgamesh), which ... More than ...

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

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir. This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint.