This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur ... Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are ...

This is the oldest and smallest object in the series: a tiny Sumerian cylinder seal depicting a harvest festival. It was carved in 2,600 BC and was part of the collection of ancient cylinder seals ...

There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years—more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and statues of the third millennium B.C ...

The Museum of Lost Objects traces the stories of 10 antiquities or ancient sites that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria Listen to the episode about the Sumerian Seal on Radio 4 from ...

CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca ... Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of stone objects as well. Different combinations of these marks represented syllables, which could in turn ...

Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets that were looted in Iraq and bought by the U.S. company Hobby Lobby seem to hail from a mysterious Sumerian city ... hundreds of metal objects up to 3,400 ...

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 ...