News tagged with cuneiform tablets
The fermented cereal beverage of the Sumerians may not have been beer
Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by Mesopotamia's ...
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Slaves or not, Babylonians were like us, says book
(PhysOrg.com) -- They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us. Whether they were also slaves is a hotly contested question ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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3-D printers make replicas of cuneiform tablets
Today's Assyriology scholars study Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets with the help of digital photographs or handwritten copies of the texts, but ideally, they visit collections to see the tablets ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Archaeologists find cache of tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple
(PhysOrg.com) -- Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at the site of a recently discovered temple in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron ...
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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Redefining archaeological research
Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur (modern day Iraq), Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the layers to find out what makes up this first-generation iPad. And thanks to a new ...
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May 11, 2012 |
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Archaeologists discover lost language
Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey.
May 10, 2012 |
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Baking in the details: Semitic Museum project conserves thousands of ancient clay tablets
In the basement of Harvard’s Semitic Museum, Alex Douglas looked at the pieces of baked clay in front of him, teasing out how they fit together into a small tablet, thousands of years old and marked with ...
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Jan 06, 2012 |
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History shines through the glass
“All glass is beautiful,” Belgian researcher Patrick Degryse said, gently turning a delicate, Roman-era vessel, its bluish sheen glowing under the fluorescent lights of the Semitic Museum’s ...
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Huge dictionary project completed after 90 years
An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. ...
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem
A tiny clay fragment - dating from the 14th century B.C.E. - that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem's Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem, say researchers at ...
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Jul 12, 2010 |
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Researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets
A cache of cuneiform tablets unearthed by a team led by a University of Toronto archaeologist has been found to contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century BCE.
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Apr 08, 2010 |
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Technology brings new insights to ancient language
(PhysOrg.com) -- New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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The story of ancient Persia gets digitized
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian ...
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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