Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

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 ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

So what was the first recorded UFO sighting, and did it predate the mid-20th century, when reports of UFOs became more commonplace? Unfortunately, the answer isn't clear-cut, at least when looking at ...

The Sumerians are credited for several of the most fundamental human inventions: the wheel, large-scale architecture, and the earliest writing system—cuneiform. In the third millennium BCE, Sumer fell ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

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 ...