Papyrus, parchment, paper ... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform clay tablet of ancient Mesopotamia, ...
Sometime around 1800 B.C., a Sumerian scholar inscribed a hand-sized clay tablet with a series of cryptic numbers. The unusual tablet, known as Plimpton 322 (below), has provoked years of fevered ...
The Ashmolean Museum's collection is now more accessible than ever. The museum's website highlights that the ongoing digitization of its Babylonian cuneiform tablets is helping preserve these ancient ...
Somewhere in the sun-baked flatlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, something extraordinary happened. Around 4500 BCE, a people called the Sumerians began transforming scattered agricultural ...
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