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 ...

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia ... archaeologists have ...

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 ...

Before damage, the tablet showed eight shapes which researchers have decoded as mountains referenced in the cuneiform ... Ark’s landing place and is the Assyrian equivalent to “Ararat ...

The location is the Assyrian equivalent to 'Ararat,' the ... prick and the fact is it's only once otherwise known from cuneiform tablets and it's rather an interesting cuneiform tablet too ...

The patterned cuneiform tablet was discovered in the Middle East before being acquired by the British Museum in 1882. Ever since it was found people have tried to figure out what the map-like ...

The location is the Assyrian equivalent to 'Ararat,' the Hebrew word for the mountain Noah crashed ... This parsiktu measurement, is something to an Assyriologist which makes their ears prick and the ...

The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a ... in the ruins of the library of an Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, in northern ...