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This 5,500-year-old Kish tablet is the oldest written document
The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
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 ...
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An error for the ages: 4,000-year-old clay tablet immortalizes Sumerian student's math mistake
Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike: a 4,000-year-old clay tablet that preserves a mathematical ...
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The World's Oldest Writing
2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were ...
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The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
US authorities say the item was illegally imported into the US An ancient clay tablet ... Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the ...
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Iraqi student’s 4,000-year-old math mistake well preserved on a clay tablet
A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their 4,000-year-old geometry homework at a time when the world shifted from oral to written dissemination of knowledge.
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
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 ...