This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

Cuneiform writing used a stylus to make wedge-shaped impressions ... in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk.

Researchers worked to decipher the cuneiform language ... wedge shaped' because people used a reed stylus to create the wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. These symbols could be used to write ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...