The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...

More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...

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A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike: a 4,000-year-old clay tablet that preserves a mathematical ...

The 3,500-year-old clay tablet found at Alalakh measures around 1.6 by 1.4 inches and is 0.6 inches thick. It weighs approximately one ounce. Experts think that it dates back to sometime in the ...

This beer's even older than the one in the back of your fridge. Discover the hymn behind ancient beer brewing so you can ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their 4,000-year-old geometry homework at a time when the world shifted from oral to written dissemination of knowledge.