Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...

A mysterious artifact, called the Bashplemi Tablet, was discovered in 2021 and has a never-before-seen writing system on it.

Radiocarbon dating of a Rongorongo tablet from Rapa Nui suggests it was created between 1493 and 1509, predating European ...

The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...