The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native of the elusive Akkad—conquered Girsu and other Sumerian cities, and ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of writing, the tablets not only bring kings and queens to life, but also priests, traders and professional lamenters. They also include magic ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh. They were written thousands of years ago on clay tablets. This Sumerian King List prism is from ...