An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sēpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, of the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The period in ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

DAMASCUS, 11 January (BelTA - SANA Agensy). - The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC. This ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze ...

Machine generated contents note: -- I. Materiality and literacies -- 1. Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans, Jonathan Taylor -- 2. Accounting in proto-cuneiform, Robert K. Englund -- 3. Numeracy ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the capital of the Egyptian Empire: Akhetaten, which means Horizon of Aten. There, ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...