British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map ...

“There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died ... topsoil washes away and artifacts—pot- sherds and even cuneiform tablets and statuettes—emerge on the surface of the ground.

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital ... Note the (sarcophagus is made of bronze) An inscribed tablet (which mentions curses ...