Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...

Not the exact thing you want to read on an ancient tablet if you happen to be any sort of superstitious. But it’s one of several omens that a group of archaeologists read when they finally deciphered ...

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: Researchers present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the ...

From cuneiform to code: section of a Hittite cuneiform text found in Boğazköy-Hattuša in 2024 (photo and XML text). The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey ...

Cuneiform tablets are among the earliest surviving written records in human history. By recreating tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh in gingerbread, the process highlights how cuneiform was formed, ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—Four-thousand-year-old cuneiform tablets have been found to predict omens using the time of night, movement of shadows, and the date and duration of eclipses, according to a Live ...

Inscriptions on a set of four clay tablets from the ancient Near Eastern civilization of Babylonia have finally been completely deciphered, thousands of years after they were produced, a study reports ...

Introduction -- The simple group -- The expanded version -- A three-constellation version -- The cuneiform uranology texts : looking forward -- Appendix A. Star guide -- Appendix B. BM 66958 side B -- ...