A new mobile X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner now allows researchers to read 4,000-year-old sealed cuneiform tablets without damaging their clay ... Show more
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Daily Sabah Oct 08
Hittite royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed in central Türkiye: A royal archive unearthed at the ancient Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas ...
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Los Angeles Review of Books Sep 02
The Empire of Information | Los Angeles Review of Books: Roopika Risam’s new book shows how various data regimes, from clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia to ...
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4,000-year-old clay tablet on display at Turkish museum: Kültepe Kaniş/Karum Höyüğü excavations in central Türkiye have yielded a 4,000-year-old clay tablet ...
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4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs: For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed ...
phys.org/news/2026-04-year-clay-tablets-inscribed-magical.html
The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour: A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.
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Did Cyrus II really invent human rights?: A clay cylinder tells the story of how Cyrus II conquered Babylon. 2,500 years later, it is said that the founder of ...
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Hymn of Babylon pieced together after 2,100 years — but how?: A lost classic of Mesopotamian literature has largely been reconstructed by scholars ...
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Researchers discover 3,000-year-old hymn to ancient city of Babylon: The discovery astonished the scientific community: Munich researchers have pieced together a ...
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Writing on clay tablets — uncovered in Iraq — reveal hidden history of ancient city
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Cuneiform-like data storage tech boasts four times the density of binary: Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in ...
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