Sentences with phrase «mesopotamian cuneiform»

It is unclear when rock doves were domesticated, but they first appear in written history on Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from over 5,000 years ago.

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Discovered by the museum's cuneiform curator, Irving Finkel, the tablet makes note of a round ark and is one of several versions of the flood story that have been found in Mesopotamian excavations.

For the Huari (about AD 500 to 800) and Inca civilisations especially, the system of knotted strings called quipu, accomplished the same bureaucratic ends as Mesopotamian clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform.

Indeed, Baldock's research process during his residency has included studying the British Museum's collection of Mesopotamian clay tablets, which trace the evolution from pictograms into cuneiform script's semi-abstract marks, and the earliest of which date back 5000 years.