Metal tablet reveals the earliest known evidence of Jewish curse in sports
Curse tablets and magic spells are not entirely unknown, especially when it comes to the scope of the ancient world. The offended Greeks did it…
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The world’s oldest known marriage contract with infertility ‘clause’ is a 4000-year old Assyrian tablet
In this week itself, we talked about how the analysis of 4000-year old tablets from the ancient mercantile city of Kanesh (or Kaneš), in what…
Archaeologists uncover 3,250-year old Middle Assyrian tablets in Iraq’s Kurdistan
Back in 2016, we talked about the incredible discovery of a large Bronze Age Mesopotamian city made by the University of Tübingen archaeologists (constituting the…
The ‘fortuitous’ clay tablet that revealed the previously unknown lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Sometimes all it takes is a ‘strategic’ collaboration between opposing parties to unveil the literary brilliance of our ancestors. Well, in 2011, the fortuitous partnership…
3700-year old Babylonian tablet may contain the world’s oldest known trigonometric table
When it comes to the history of incredible inventions, advanced mathematics was one of the major developments that came out of Mesopotamia. Pertaining to this…
2000-year old Roman tablets with ink-writing discovered at the Vindolanda Fort in Britain
Touted to be one of the most important discoveries at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in the last 25 years, archaeologists (from the Vindolanda Trust)…
2400-year old ancient Greek curse tablets ‘call upon’ the gods of the underworld
Back in 2016, a team of archaeologists unearthed five ancient curse tablets from a grave in the Greek capital city of Athens. Found inside the…
Ancient 3,700-year old ‘customer service complaint’ inscribed on a Babylonian tablet
Mesopotamia is home to many of the world’s firsts, including the world’s oldest known literature and song. And now we are witness to one of…
The world’s oldest known payslip depicts how workers were possibly ‘paid’ in beer
Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, boasts a lasting legacy that relates to many of humanity’s ‘firsts’. One among them pertains to a 5,000-year old artifact…
