Until now, however, there was little surviving evidence from this time beyond unreliable copies of Akkadian inscriptions created later. Instead, these tablets are written in the early cuneiform ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian administrators in Girsu. These clay records are incredibly detailed, showing fierce ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion. These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record the affairs of the state ...

The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion. These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record the affairs of the state, including ...

It was not until 1857 that the decipherment of cuneiform was completed. Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859 ...