Experts discovered the earliest known evidence of a long-distance trading network from the Bronze Age site of Kanesh, in central Turkey. The evidence was in the form of thousands of clay tablets with ...

Two rare Assyrian tablets, believed to be the only ones of their kind in the United States, have been presented to Yale University’s Babylonian Collection by Mrs. Julia Kahn in memory of her mother ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq.

An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

A dirty clay tablet inscribed with one of the world’s oldest poems was looted from Iraq, smuggled into the U.S. and turned over to a London auction house before it landed in the hands of a large arts ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay ...