If the Assyrian account is to be believed ... A particularly poignant object from the show is a cuneiform tablet — cuneiform being the wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Mesopotamia ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...

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 ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia ... archaeologists have since discovered much older cuneiform tablets with similar flood ...

For example, tens of thousands of tablets containing cuneiform writing have been found in Nineveh, preserving both scientific texts and literature, including parts of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ancient ...

The tablet is written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of ... version was found in the ruins of the library of an Assyrian king, Assur Banipal, in northern Iraq.

But researchers at the British Museum, where the tablet is housed, have carried out deeper analysis to decipher the map and uncover the biblical references within the ancient cuneiform language.