Sentences with phrase «of cuneiform tablets»

Here the archaeologists found an extensive archive of cuneiform tablets, which describe trade relations with Nagar and Mari.

While the majority of the cuneiform tablets found with the tokens deal with grain trades, it's not yet known what the various tokens represent.

Not exact matches

A British scholar has found that a 4,000 - year - old cuneiform tablet from what is now Iraq contains a story similar to the biblical account of Noah's Ark..

When Archaeologists unearth cities, and pottery, and cuneiform tablets, and cylinders, and papyrus, and palaces, we gain a wealth of knowledge that backs up Biblical accounts.

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.

Assyrian bas - reliefs and Sumerian cuneiform tablets depict artificial pollination — and manipulating the sex life of plants was one of the first technological feats that enabled our world of abundant fruits and vegetables, meat, bread, and chocolate.

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.

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.

And examine real treasures lent by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — cuneiform tablets, Nasca vases from Peru, a golden vessel from Mesopotamia, and more.

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.

He suspects that thousands of looted cuneiform tablets, small figurines, and bronze objects won't show up on the art market for years, as sellers wait for international outrage to cool.

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.

Technology is «akin to cuneiform tablets,» Scottsdale's head of school, Hadley Ruggles, told me.

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

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.

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.

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.

The diverse collections also boast artifacts of ancient history and natural science: fossil collections, a 143 - pound meteorite, an Egyptian mummy, shards of Babylonian cuneiform tablets, samplings of early Mediterranean jewelry, and representations of Berkshire ecosystems including local mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, plants, and minerals.

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.