The tablets have been authoritatively dated to a period from 350 B.C. to 50 B.C. The people of Mesopotamia — what is now Iraq — developed mathematics about 5,000 years ago.

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq.

Deciphering a 4,000-year-old clay tablet found in what is now Iraq has revealed that it contains inscriptions about calamities such as the death of a king, the fall of a city, and plague, all of ...

A clay tablet from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) is the oldest known case of a written customer complaint. In the detailed message, a man named Nanni ...

Humans Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay ...

Highly educated scribes created the distinctive wedge-shaped characters using reeds on clay tablets. The newly found tablet, which dates back to the 15th century BC, appears to have served as an ...

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.