Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

Researchers studying clay balls from Mesopotamia have discovered clues to a lost code that was used for record-keeping about 200 years before writing was invented.

The keyboards and screens are made from stamped and carved clay which embodies the oldest writing methods found in Mesopotamian cuneiforms. Through material estrangement and engagement, Buffett-Davis’ ...

Officers found up to 190 objects which appeared to be clay tablets, figurines and pots from Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, dating between about 2000 BC and 500 BC. But the shipment quickly raised ...

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 ...

4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from ...

Because the cuneiform script existed, Mesopotamian stories were written down on clay tablets and many of them still exist. Judith Heineman will tell several of these ancient tales including the ...