World’s Oldest Recipes of Making Broth, Pie and Stew Detailed in Babylonian Cuneiform, Surprise Experts Like the present-day ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts of the Quran. Widely known as one of the mote notable museums in Europe, the Chester Beatty ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir. This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint.

Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says. “These are the remains of the scribal training process for the administrators of the state’s archives under Akkad imperial rule. It’s a ...