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 ...

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 ...

The cylinders were rolled onto clay tablets, leaving a stamped ... Like cylinder seals, Ferrara explained that proto-cuneiform was used for accounting, though its use is primarily documented ...

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 ...

But the end was near. The last known tablets that can be dated were written in the late first century A.D. Some scholars believe cuneiform ceased to be used around that time, but Assyriologist ...

Now, experts have linked early cuneiform symbols to designs that ... probably involving temple institutions, and that both seals and tablets were used to document these exchanges.

Photograph of proto-cuneiform tablet showing signs discussed in the article. (Colour image of drawing of Fig. 4 in the article - Ref_ Englund 1994 ATU 5_ pl. 71).

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

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 ...