The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...

Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian ... wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets. The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears to have served as an ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the ... thousands of years ago. Scholars discovered it in 1853, when a 12-tablet ...

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 ...

It was found that the markings on the tablet followed the cuneiform script. The ancient script which originated in the Middle East was used to create many languages like Sumerian and Akkadian.

This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations ... a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern ...

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 ...