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The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...

A Babylonian retelling of Noah and the Ark on a 3,000-year-old clay ... Chinese or English today. Cuneiform is thought to have first been developed in 3400 BC. Cuneiform most likely came ...

“Trade finance has enabled the exchange of goods for millennia. Babylonian cuneiform tablets dating back to 3000 BC mention the kind of promissory notes and letters of credit that still underpin ...

Picture writing was invented in Mesopotamia before 3,000 BC. This clay tablet ... which is unrelated to any modern language. By 2,400 BC, cuneiform had been adapted for writing Akkadian, and ...

One of the two clay tablets is 4.5cm high and dates from around 3,000 BC. The other measures 3.2 cm and originates from the Irin/Eridu region in southern Iraq. It dates from 1,900-1,700 BC.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC.

These bulla, discovered in Iraq, recorded agricultural transactions in the 8th Millennium BC The combination of the tokens and the clay cuneiform writing led to a brilliant verification device ...