New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft ... They brainstorm and write a short paragraph on each letter (Ex: Cuneiform: cuneiform was an early form or ...

However, proto-cuneiform is only found in southern Iraq ... As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub in the fourth millennium BCE. Its broad area of influence extended ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

Born in 1840 to a modest London family, George Smith not only became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned contemporary notions about ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

building remains and three clay tablets recently discovered by archaeologists in northeastern Iraq provide new details about Mesopotamian life. The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets ...