This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months ...

Writing itself in the form of cuneiform was invented in the storehouses of this Sumerian heartland ... Your prince, the great prince Enlil, the good lord, the lord of the boundary of heaven.” There ...

the seat of Enlil, god of the elements. There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years—more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello ...

I’ll open this one.’” Philip Jones of the Penn Museum shows a tablet with the Sumerian bar joke written in large, untidy cuneiform script. (WBUR/Ben Brock Johnson) Amory: If you noticed some ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled a significant link between ancient trade symbols and the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia. Researchers from the University ...

Akkadian and its predecessor, Sumerian, were written using cuneiform, in which a sharpened reed creates wedge-shaped markings on a wet piece of clay. The Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform are the ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.