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  2. Clay tablet - Wikipedia

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    In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu(m) 𒁾) [1] were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed . Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air ...

  3. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.

  4. Ebla tablets - Wikipedia

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    The Ebla tablets are a collection of as many as 1,800 complete clay tablets, 4,700 fragments, and many thousands of minor chips found in the palace archives [1] of the ancient city of Ebla, Syria. The tablets were discovered by Italian archaeologist Paolo Matthiae and his team in 1974–75 [ 2 ] during their excavations at the ancient city at ...

  5. Knowing all the angles: Ancient Babylonians used tricky ... - AOL

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    That is the finding of a study published on Thursday that analyzed four clay tablets dating from 350 to 50 BC

  6. Archaeologists Uncovered a Mysterious Ancient Tablet With ...

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    Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.

  7. 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Containing Evil Omens ...

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    Researchers have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old tablets found more than 100 years ago in modern-day Iraq.. The clay tablets have cuneiform inscriptions (wedge-shaped characters used in ancient ...

  8. Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

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    The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE.The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.

  9. Archaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet ...

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    Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.