Photograph of proto-cuneiform tablet showing signs discussed in the article. (Colour image of drawing of Fig. 4 in the article - Ref_ Englund 1994 ATU 5_ pl. 71).

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily ... As this society develops you can see that this will become more and more important and the ability ...

But the end was near. The last known tablets that can be dated were written in the late first century A.D. Some scholars believe cuneiform ceased to be used around that time, but Assyriologist ...

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...