A series of nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets have long held eerie warnings that went undeciphered. But now, archaeologists have revealed what these ominous messages say, including dire ...

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and ...

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The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.