Aeon20 小时
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...
Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...
BBC12 年
Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
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 ...
来自MSN2 个月
Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about 3350-3000BC. Now, experts have linked early cuneiform ...
BBC14 年
Early writing tablet
It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...
Armed robbery in Revesby2 天
Iraq Dig Unveils Ancient Mesopotamian Secrets
New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform ...
Archaeology6 年
The Case of the Stolen Sumerian Antiquities
The artifacts—three ceramic cones bearing cuneiform inscriptions ... They appeared to him to have come from ancient Mesopotamia, and to have been produced by various cultures between the ...