Sentences with phrase «in cuneiform tablets»

9 «Zero» was first seen in cuneiform tablets written around 300 B.C. by Babylonians who used it as a placeholder (to distinguish 36 from 306 or 360, for example).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A scholar translating Babylonian cuneiform tablets found the name of a Babylonian who is also mentioned in the Torah as having been present at the razing of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

In the service of astrology, Babylonian priests wrote instructional texts on cuneiform tablets, many of which still survive.

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.

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.

Now stored at Columbia University, the tablet first garnered attention in the 1940s, when historians recognized that its cuneiform inscriptions contain a series of numbers echoing the Pythagorean theorem, which explains the relationship of the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.

Consisting of four columns and 15 rows of numbers inscribed in cuneiform, the famous P322 tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in what is now southern Iraq by archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and diplomat Edgar Banks, the inspiration for the fictional character Indiana Jones.

One of the most celebrated artifacts in mathematics is a palm - sized cuneiform tablet made during the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4000 years ago in modern - day Iraq.

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.

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

BTW There was a story in Analog Science Fiction magazine many years ago connecting the Tower of Babel with computers using hard disks, being cuneiform tablets.