The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears to have served as an itemized receipt. Written in Akkadian cuneiform, the ancient inscription describes the purchase of a ...

In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the cuneiform tablets. Such dockets gave brief indication of names and dates and a summary of the contents which were useful to merchants.

Clay tablets and cuneiform writing These clay tablets contain texts written in cuneiform writing. The Sumerians developed the cuneiform writing system around 3500-2600 BCE. Cuneiform signs gradually ...

JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form of wedges, the Latin word for which ...

Parts of its stories are mirrored in the Hebrew Bible. The tablet is written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that ...

The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia. Scholars discovered the epic ...