The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...

Worthington frames these ancient pictographs as a device to cast Sargon’s name into the cosmos for perpetuity, a stratagem for timeless commemoration not entirely dissimilar to the age-old ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

Pictographs have obvious disadvantages as means of communication ... at least six hundred would have to be learned even for the simplified cuneiform developed in Assyria, and about the same for ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

Some of the pictographs can be understood by matching them to the cuneiform signs that derived from them. The pictographs therefore constitute a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to decipher the age-old token system.

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 ...

This loads the basic set of symbols first. Press the "Symbol" button again to load the pictograph symbols. Press the "Enter" key to make your symbol group selection. Use the charts in the manual ...

Just twist the dial around the lens to the pictograph representing what you're shooting, and you're done. If you can't remember the subject distance for each zone, they're marked below the lens ...