Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...
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 ...
A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...