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 ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the University of Central Florida.

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the University of Central Florida.

The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid-era, official media said, reporting the sixth such handover of its kind.

TEHRAN – On Thursday, 1100 Achaemenid-era clay tablets were returned to Iran from the United States, marking the sixth batch of such historical artifacts brought back to the ancient country. The clay ...