Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Excavations before and after World War II revealed remnants of a large Mycenaean palace dating to about 1300 B.C., as well as hundreds of clay tablets written in the Linear B script developed on ...

Clay tablets have proven invaluable to our understanding of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation (Photo via Getty) These texts reveal not only what the Mesopotamians did, but what they believed. They ...

On one clay tablet, for example, he is shown wearing a horned crown, resembling, Rey adds, “a god-like figure”. A clay seal featuring an impression of the Akkadian governor Lugal-ushumgal.

4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from ...

Humans Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life. When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Clay Tablet inscribed with Linear B script. Credit: vintagedept. CC BY 2.0/flickr Aside from this complex agricultural and food-sourcing framework, the Minoans were also a mercantile people who were ...

The Pylos Combat Agate, found in the Griffin Warrior’s grave, is an extraordinarily fine seal stone measuring only 1.4 inches wide. It depicts the final moments of a battle among three warriors ...

Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm) wide and weighs about 1.7 ounces (48.4 grams). It was found near the Ōyu Stone ...

The cylinders were then rolled onto clay tablets, ... a proto-cuneiform symbol designated as ZATU639 is comparable in both shape and context to an impression of a bull found on the cylinders.

Iklaina may be the first city state in ancient Greece. An open-air pagan sanctuary, an early Mycenaean palace, giant terrace walls, murals, an advanced drainage system, and a clay tablet from between ...