Sentences with phrase «on cuneiform tablets»

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

Interestingly, the most common words on cuneiform tablets like this were bread and beer.

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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.

There is a written recipe for dying wool with indigo on a Babylonian cuneiform tablet dated to the seventh century B.C..

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.

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.