The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

Aren’t cave paintings much older written records? The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back to 50,000 years ...

Highly educated scribes created the distinctive wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets. The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears to have served as an ...

Deciphering a 4,000-year-old clay tablet found in what is now Iraq has revealed that it contains inscriptions about calamities such as the death of a king, the fall of a city, and plague ...

Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in Turkey is actually a 3,500-year-old receipt, on which someone recorded a furniture sale.

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon.