The National Museum's Collection of Cuneiform Tablets," has digitized and cataloged these ancient texts for the first time. Among the most spectacular findings is a royal list that includes the ...

Ancient cuneiform tablets at Denmark's National Museum may prove that Sumerian hero Gilgamesh was a real historical ruler.

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze ...