Since acquiring the tablet in 1882, the British Museum made a significant breakthrough when it found a piece that had been ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze ...

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era ...

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To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

Researchers translated the cuneiform writing, which is characterized by symbols gouged into moist clay. Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in ...

TOKYO, JAPAN—According to a Live Science report, a well-preserved cuneiform tablet unearthed last year by Kimiyoshi Matsumura of the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology at the site of ...

Earlier this month, U.S. officials agreed to return two seized cuneiform artifacts to the Iraqi consulate in Los Angeles. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal agents have returned two ...

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