A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at ...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Ancient artifacts thousands of years old were returned to the Republic of Iraq this week. The artifacts had been seized by federal law enforcement officials in separate ...
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Hundreds of ancient tablets confiscated from a billionaire antiques collector reveal what life was like in an ancient Sumerian city that flourished some 4,000 years ago. Since 2009, Hobby Lobby owner ...
A discovery in southern Iraq has given us a rare glimpse into the world of ancient bureaucracy. Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals ...
Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...
A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at ...
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