Sentences with phrase «on clay tablets»

In fact, tracking accounts is one of the original uses for the spreadsheet dating as far back as when the ancients etched ledgers on clay tablets.

in the 4th millennium BC the Sumerians wrote on clay tablets.

Historians rely mostly on clay tablets that record the scholarly work of this era.

It would be like saying the ancient writings on clay tablets found were a random act of insects crawling and landing on wet clay and over time those impressions dried - but there was never a group of people that had a written language using clay tablets.

Not a little of this is preserved on clay tablets and has been deciphered.

However, other experts on the clay tablet, known as Plimpton 322 (P322), say the new work is speculative at best.

Not exact matches

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday.

God comes to earth, magi pay It a visit, a star stops, a king tries to kill all boy babies, it brings dead to life, gives great lectures etc. etc. and not one writing, one piece of jewelry, one clay tablet, one letter about It the entire 30 years It's on earth.

The world's potentially oldest clay tablet containing a flood story was found in the British Museum archives and put on display last January.

The numbers inscribed in the clay — which calculate the total distance traveled by the planet — matched those on the perplexing geometric tablets.

Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly 4,000 years ago.

A 3,700 - year - old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of Watch Mommy and the 18 Year Old Sleepover online on.

Written on a 3,400 - year - old clay tablet found in the ruins of a royal palace in Syria, this is what the in - crowd were dancing to in 1400BC.

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

«Back in my day we didn't have gaddamn digital books, we used clay tablets, or stones and delivered them on a donkey, whip one of those into someones skull they knew they were getting smarter!»

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.

Pigment is rubbed on paper over a prayer stone (mohr)-- a clay tablet headrest used by some Shias when in prayer.

«I have been concentrating on monoprints and paintings on flat clay tablets and dimensional wall square installations.