In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia ... them into administrative shape. “Sargon developed this new ...

who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved ...

A Japanese research expedition has discovered an ancient tablet in Turkey ... Turkey's Buklukale ruins last May. The tablet contains 70 lines of text. The shape of the cuneiform letters dates ...

Over time this tablet has become one of the most significant and most studied objects of the ancient world. Dr Daniel Mansfield, of the University of New South Wales, who has studied Plimpton 322 ...