Sentences with phrase «old cuneiform»
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..
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(2 Kings 2:23 - 24) But I think I'll stick with my old favorites: 5000 year old clay tablets with cuneiform carvings.
The translation is that of Robert W. Rogers taken from his Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, pp. 91 - 101, passim, and The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 20.
From cuneiform to microdots to encrypted wifi, even the best technology is vulnerable to «human engineering» — the old rules evolve, but they rarely change completely.
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.
How many of us truly even imagine that six year olds should be able to identify cuneiform and hieroglyphics or understand the importance of the code of Hammurabi?
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.