drying the tablets in the sun or firing them in ovens. The Sumerians and their descendant cultures were prodigious writers, and millions of their tablets survive, proving etched clay to be history ...

It's supposedly from the region that is modern-day Iraq and thought to be written in Sumerian ... as he scanned the tablet, pointing out individual symbols. "That's the sun coming up between ...

In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq uncovered an ancient clay tablet with a peculiar yet ... sitting outside the door under the bright Sumerian sun. He’s scaring away unwelcome Peeping ...

Neo-Sumerian, c. 2090 BC, Mesopotamia, probably from Girsu (modern Tello, Iraq) Credit: SEPIA TIMES/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY The team recently unearthed a fragment of a tablet in a ruined ...

His duties involved brewing beer for religious offerings, but also, learning to keep administrative records on clay tablets in ... into clay by the Sumerians. From the start, writing was ...

In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq uncovered an ancient clay tablet with a peculiar yet ... sitting outside the door under the bright Sumerian sun. He’s scaring away unwelcome Peeping ...