News tagged with ancient tablets
Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012
Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 25, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (21) |
43
3-D printers make replicas of cuneiform tablets
Today's Assyriology scholars study Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets with the help of digital photographs or handwritten copies of the texts, but ideally, they visit collections to see the tablets ...
May 24, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
The story of ancient Persia gets digitized
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
Search results for ancient tablets
The fermented cereal beverage of the Sumerians may not have been beer
Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by Mesopotamia's ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2012 |
3.3 / 5 (3) |
1
Baking in the details: Semitic Museum project conserves thousands of ancient clay tablets
In the basement of Harvard’s Semitic Museum, Alex Douglas looked at the pieces of baked clay in front of him, teasing out how they fit together into a small tablet, thousands of years old and marked with ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 06, 2012 |
4 / 5 (3) |
0
Slaves or not, Babylonians were like us, says book
(PhysOrg.com) -- They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us. Whether they were also slaves is a hotly contested question ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
3.6 / 5 (7) |
16
Behind the numbers: Samsung passes Apple in phones
For the first time, Samsung Electronics Co. shipped more smartphones in the latest quarter than tech industry darling Apple Inc. On the surface, this may look like a big upset in a world that affords the iPhone ...
Oct 29, 2011 |
5 / 5 (9) |
4
History shines through the glass
“All glass is beautiful,” Belgian researcher Patrick Degryse said, gently turning a delicate, Roman-era vessel, its bluish sheen glowing under the fluorescent lights of the Semitic Museum’s ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 14, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Huge dictionary project completed after 90 years
An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 08, 2011 |
4.6 / 5 (11) |
5
|
Oldest evidence of writing found in Europe
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study to be published this month in the Proceedings of the Athens Archaeological Society, archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos of the University of Missouri-St. Louis shares his discovery of a c ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 04, 2011 |
4.2 / 5 (13) |
2
|
Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture uncovered in Southern Mexico
(PhysOrg.com) -- With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was - corn god? Tribal chief? Sacred ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 14, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (9) |
4
|
Translating Chinese medicine for the West
In a traditional Chinese medicine store in central Beijing, part of the Tongrentang chain founded 342 years ago, three white-coated workers follow traditions that stretch even further back in time. They sort and chop an exotic ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 11, 2010 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.
Sep 30, 2010 |
4 / 5 (4) |
1
List of search results for ancient tablets
