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

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...