cuneiform

Relying on the data of thousands of cuneiform sources that he analyzed first-hand, he investigates when, how, and why weighing appeared; how it changed during the course of the third millennium BC; and how it reflected and affected economic and social practices and relations.

Due for return to Iraq is an important collection of tablets bearing cuneiform, a very early writing system.

He studied Cuneiform writing, which is one of the earliest systems of writing invented by the Sumerians in 3,200 BC, to decipher inscriptions from the Dilmun civilisation in order to create the replica.

Al-Qayyem said that the most important discovery in Ugarit is its revolutionary alphabet which summarized the cuneiform signs from 600 to 30 letters that became the basis of the international alphabet.

The correspondence of the chronological end-point of the Axial Age with diminished production of cuneiform documents in the Hellenistic period contributes to Elman's setting-aside of a consideration of the production of knowledge in cuneiform, unfortunate in view of its (limited) continuity until the first century CE.

Characterization of a Bipartite Medial Cuneiform: Micro-CT and Anatomical Study

Sumeria was unknown to archaeologists, historians and anthropologists, and our knowledge of it began only in 1849, when 14 cuneiform tablets were discovered in Iraq and later deciphered.

(7-9) The duplication of cuneiform tarsal bones is also seen.

Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science.

Greenand a consultant traveled to the United Arab Emirates in July 20 to inspect a large number of cuneiform tablets, a system of writing on clay tablets that was used in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, according to the U.S.

The Justice Department said Hobby Lobby ignored the warnings of an expert in 2010 and paid $1.6 million for 5,500 artifacts of questionable origin--including rare cuneiform tablets (traditional clay slabs with wedge-shaped writing that originated in ancient Mesopotamia, now Iraq).