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Pre Industrial Age, Sumerian Language, Mesopotamia Art, Ancient Alphabet, Clay Tablet, Ancient Letters, Anunnaki Aliens, Ancient Alphabets, Ancient Sumerian

The Tablet Collection of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is an independent unit of our museum under the curatorship of a faculty member in Cuneiform Studies. This position is currently held by Susanne Paulus, Associate Professor of Assyriology.

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EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY: WHAT IS THE CLAY TABLET ? Sumerian Language, Clay Tablet, Prehistoric Period, Ufo Footage, Johannes Gutenberg, Steel Industry, Ancient Recipes, Rosetta Stone, Archaeological Discoveries

CLAY TABLET: The main writing material used by the scribes of early civilizations. Signs were impressed or inscribed on the soft clay, which was then dried in the sun. The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites wrote on tablets made from water-cleaned clay. A common form was a thin quadrilateral tile about 12.5 cm (5 inches) long which, while still wet, was inscribed by a stylus with cuneiform characters. By writing on the surface in small characters, a scribe could copy a…

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