"The project, titled Hidden Treasures: The National Museum’s Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, has been carried out by researchers from the institution itself and from the University of Copenhagen. The texts, which in many cases are more than 4,000 years old, were written in languages that are now extinct, such as Sumerian and Akkadian, using cuneiform writing, a communication system that emerged approximately 5,200 years ago in the ancient cultures of what is now Iraq and Syria, where scribes pressed wedge-shaped signs into fresh clay."
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4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Suggest Gilgamesh May Have Really Existed, Researchers Say
More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tablets from the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, a team of researchers has finally managed to fully analyze, identify, and digitize this documentary collection, revealing
Guillermo Carvajal
