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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Discover Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets at an Ancient Sumerian City in Iraq Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient ...

CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca ... It implicitly challenged the perception that cuneiform tablets were used merely for basic accounting, such as tallying grain, rather than for complex astronomical ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records of accountancy ... of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern ...