Marks on a clay tablet fragment found in Greece are the oldest known decipherable text in Europe, a new study says.
We know about them because a clay tablet bearing a record of these ancient observations, called the Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa, was made 1000 years later and has survived largely intact.
Akkadian was written with the cuneiform writing system, on clay tablets, and was in use from the beginning to about 750 b. c.
Stationary cave walls gave way to rock and clay tablets, which in turn were supplanted by papyrus and animal-skin documents, including scrolls.
Museum originates in Sumerians temple. In there, rooms were filled with clay tablets which were recorded in God legend and history by cuneiform.
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