Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...

An ancient drawing of a demon was discovered on a 2,700-year-old Assyrian clay tablet ... now in northern Iraq. The tablet was written in cuneiform, an early system of letters that were formed ...

Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the ...

Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq.

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 ...

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 ...

For example, tens of thousands of tablets containing cuneiform writing have been found in Nineveh, preserving both scientific texts and literature, including parts of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ancient ...