A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

The survey of the tablets was carried out to look for references to aurorae, that might match the evidence from tree ring ...

Many of the fragments bore cuneiform hieroglyphs, and over the years scholars had managed to reassemble parts of some tablets ... of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire and publish ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire ... the first ...

represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, one of the capitals of the ...