Mr. Smith writes: "Early last year some Arabs discovered a vault and chamber in the ruins of Babylon stored with some 3,000 cuneiform inscriptions. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Some recipes recorded 4,000 years ago by humans appear to have similarities to a modern cuisine, and a few ingredients have ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily ... which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and Arabic ...

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 tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint. Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform ...

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 ...