Newly Deciphered, 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Used Lunar Eclipses to Predict Major Events. Story by Eli Wizevich • 4mo “There will be an attack on the land by a locust swarm,” one omen ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello ...

In their new approach, the researchers used 3D models of nearly 2,000 cuneiform tablets, including around 50 from a collection at MLU. According to estimates, around one million such tablets still ...

Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay tablets filled with wedge-shaped symbols.

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.

Researchers decipher predictions of doom carved on 4,000-Year-old tablets Published: Aug. 19, 2024, 12:22 p.m. Researchers deciphered the doomed prediction carved on 4,000-Year-old tablets Philippines ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

Cuneiform inscriptions on four clay tablets from ancient Babylonia have been completely deciphered in a new study. shellexx/iStock/Getty Images Plus. The tablets have long ...

Newly Deciphered, 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Used Lunar Eclipses to Predict Major Events Ancient Babylonians linked astronomical phenomena to pestilence, the death of kings and the ...

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.