Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet with an early form of writing that preserves a furniture shopping list ...

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine bears markings that researchers say might be an early precursor to writing. - Hildegard Jensen/Universität Tübingen Symbols and markings carved into tools and ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

"Sign sequences in proto-cuneiform script are also repetitive and the individual signs are repeated at a similar rate. "In terms of complexity, the sign sequences are comparable." Archaeologist Ewa ...

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 ...

For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...