Cuneiform

The Standard Babylonian version of Gilgamesh, engraved on 12 clay tablets around 1300 to 1000 BCE and copied for the library of As...

A 2.25 meter diorite stela inscribed around 1754 BCE with 282 laws of Babylonian king Hammurabi, the longest surviving legal text ...

Around 382 clay tablets of diplomatic correspondence from the 14th century BCE between pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten and ru...

A colossal rock relief carved high on a cliff around 520 BCE for Darius I of Persia, recounting his victories in Old Persian, Elam...

A small clay barrel inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform around 539 BCE after Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon. It presents Cyrus re...

A clay tablet from the 6th century BCE bearing the oldest known map of the world, with Babylon at the center, the Euphrates, surro...