Sentences with phrase «with cuneiform»

This Science video and articles from the NY Times and Washington Post show the beautiful tablets with the cuneiform writing.

A clay tablet covered with cuneiform numbers, drawn above, may have helped teachers design classroom problems.

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.

A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later

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.

Since then, we have found 216 tablets inscribed with a cuneiform script familiar from southern Mesopotamia.

MacGinnis believes that the new evidence points to prehistoric tokens used in conjunction with cuneiform as an empire - wide «admin» system stretching right across what is now Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

(2 Kings 2:23 - 24) But I think I'll stick with my old favorites: 5000 year old clay tablets with cuneiform carvings.

Not exact matches

The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.

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.

«We find,» says Lods, «in cuneiform documents of the pre-Mosaic age, a great number of personal names compounded with the syllables ya, yau, yami (or yawe), and even jahveh.»

Amid a pile of mass - produced bowls were potsherds with marks similar to the pictographs that show up more than half a millennium later in the first writing system, cuneiform.

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.

Archaeologists say that, while cuneiform writing was a more advanced accounting technology, by combining it with the flexibility of the tokens the ancient Assyrians created a record - keeping system of greater sophistication.

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.

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

The brown clay tablet, which could fit in the palm of your hand, is scrawled with hasty, highly abbreviated cuneiform characters.

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

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.

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.