When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform .

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British Museum ...

This clay tablet was discovered during excavations in ... archaeologist Adolph Leo Oppenheim and reported on in his 1967 book , Letters From Mesopotamia. Nanni wrote on the tablet, 'You placed ...

Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says. “These are the remains of the scribal training process for the administrators of the state’s archives under Akkad imperial rule. It’s a ...