These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Tag: Babylon
Newly Decoded Babylonian Tablets Uncover 4,000-Year-Old Predictions of Doom
Scholars have deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, revealing ancient beliefs linking lunar eclipses to ominous events.
Oldest example of applied geometry found in 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet
The tablet shows that ancient Babylonians used Pythagorean triples to survey plots of land a thousand years before Pythagoras was ...
Mythological fake news: 3000-year-old Babylonian tablet that inspired biblical Noah is based on trickster god
The more things change, the more they stay the same: manipulation isn't a new concept, it's been around since the ...
Ancient 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet may be earliest evidence of trigonometry
It shows Babylonians knew about Pythagorean theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even alive!
Disappointed Babylonian trader writes oldest complaint letter 3,766 years ago
It tells the story of a disappointed Babylonian customer who was shipped low-quality copper ore. The letter, written in cuneiform ...
Babylonians used advanced geometry 1,400 years before Oxford
A German astrophysicist decoded ancient Babylonian tablets stuffed with computations. His analysis reveals that these were used by the ancient ...
The complete Akkadian dictionary
Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, is the oldest attested written language - the code for the cuneiform writing system. Texts written in ...
