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

A clay tablet, almost 4,000 years old, reveals how a Mesopotamian man named Nanni took matters into his own hands when he ...

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 ...

The tablets were deciphered by American archaeologist Adolph Leo Oppenheim and reported on in his 1967 book , Letters From Mesopotamia. Nanni wrote on the tablet, 'You placed inferior (copper ...

The tablets contain details about everything ... was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic kings such as Naram-Sin, the first to proclaim himself divine ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

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 ...

Smith’s work revealed that Mesopotamian writings included an account of a great flood similar to the one described in the Book of Genesis. However, the tablets long predated the Bible ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...