In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the cuneiform tablets. Such dockets gave brief indication of names and dates and a summary of the contents which were useful to merchants.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

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 ...

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 ...

These quotations are excerpts from just two of around 1,000 letters and reports written by scholars to Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in cuneiform on clay tablets ... of the Assyrian capital, Nineveh ...