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  • Hormuzd Rassam
    ...made a number of important discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the [[clay tablet]]s that contained the ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', the world's oldest ...Gilgamesh]]'', the world's oldest-known example of written literature. The tablets' description of a flood story, written 1000 years prior to the earliest rec
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  • Chaldean cuisine
    ...f Iraq: Enshrined With A Long History. Habeeb Salloum.</ref> [[Clay tablet|Tablets]] found in ancient ruins in Iraq show recipes prepared in the temples durin ...March 2012}}</ref> recorded in [[Cuneiform|cuneiform script]] on 24 stone tablets about 1900 BC.<ref name=SAW/> It lists terms in the two ancient Iraqi langu
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  • Assur
    ...8, JC Hinrichs, (1977 reprint ISBN 3-406-02947-7)</ref> More than 16,000 [[clay tablet|tablet]]s with [[Cuneiform script|cuneiform]] texts were discovered. * Barbara Feller, Seal Images and Social Status: Sealings on Middle Assyrian Tablets from Assur, in: P. Matthiae – F. Pinnock – L. Nigro – N. Marchetti (E
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  • Sumer
    ...[Sargon the Great]] (c. 2270–2215 BC), but even then most administrative tablets continued to be written in Sumerian, the language used by the scribes. Gel ...early Egypt. Vases and dishes of stone were made in imitation of those of clay, and baskets were woven of reeds or formed of leather."
    61 KB (9,139 words) - 04:52, 14 May 2015
  • Mesopotamia
    ...to have been developed from [[pictogram]]s. The earliest texts (7 archaic tablets) come from the [[É (temple)|É]], a temple dedicated to the goddess Inanna ...e further benefits of fish (used both for food and fertilizer), reeds, and clay (for building materials). With irrigation, the [[food supply]] in Mesopotam
    56 KB (8,410 words) - 09:22, 19 November 2023
  • Babylonia
    ...o be regarded officially as a king of Babylon, and then only on one single clay tablet. Under these kings, the nation in which Babylon lay remained a small
    81 KB (12,115 words) - 05:54, 21 June 2015
  • Hammurabi
    ...of the Amorites |last=Clay |first=Albert Tobias |author-link=Albert Tobias Clay |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1919 |page=97 |url=https://archi Vast numbers of contract [[Clay tablet|tablets]], dated to the reigns of Hammurabi and his successors, have been discovere
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  • Akkadian language
    ...cript adopted from the Sumerians using wedge-shaped symbols pressed in wet clay. As employed by Akkadian scribes, the adapted cuneiform script could repres ...] were of equal status, as can be seen in the number of copied texts: clay tablets were written in Akkadian, while scribes writing on papyrus and leather used
    69 KB (10,010 words) - 09:13, 19 November 2023