Sentences with phrase «cuneiform clay»

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

Or what about the end of those great cuneiform clay tablets?

The tokens were discovered in the main administrative building in Tušhan's lower town, along with many cuneiform clay tablets as well as weights and clay sealings.

Not exact matches

The items include cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and clay bullae.

(2 Kings 2:23 - 24) But I think I'll stick with my old favorites: 5000 year old clay tablets with cuneiform carvings.

Law enforcement officials say Hobby Lobby president Steve Green personally visited the United Arab Emirates back in 2010 with a consultant to take a look at more than 5,000 artifacts like cuneiform tablets and balls of clay with ancient seals, worth millions of dollars.

Gangs of looters, numbering sometimes in the hundreds, have pilfered cylinder seals, sculptures, urns, bronze tools, clay tablets with cuneiform writing, and even reliefs carved into walls — all to supply an illegal international trade in antiquities that stretches from Taiwan to New York.

The brown clay tablet, which could fit in the palm of your hand, is scrawled with hasty, highly abbreviated cuneiform characters.

A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later

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.

A clay tablet covered with cuneiform numbers, drawn above, may have helped teachers design classroom problems.

In a land where the cuneiform script, baked into bricks of Clay, gave us the Epic of Gilgamesh; a creation story which was written in cuneiform script.

Cuneiform characters were imprinted on wet clay tablets using a reed stylus and then dried in the sun.

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.