A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Comparative analysis has revealed tantalizing connections to various ancient writing ... tablet retains its face. The ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

Ancient Mesopotamian maths was based on 60, which is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour This tablet is amazing. For me it’s a first sign of writing but it also tells ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient ... s oldest form of writing, the tablets not only ...

The auction house claimed the tablet could be dated to the late Roman-Byzantine era ... Jewish people were using a more modern form of writing than the paleo-Hebrew that the tablets are inscribed ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing ... customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing ... produced tablets with dark surfaces, a practice that ...