Clay Tablets

The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid-era, official media said, reporting the sixth such handover of its kind.

In Turkiye, a clandestine text emerges from ancient clay tablets dating back to the Hittite Empire in the second millennium BCE.

The ancient city of Babylon, first referenced in a clay tablet from the 23rd century BC, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Friday, after a vote that followed decades of lobbying by Iraq.

Scientists have found the world's oldest known marriage contract - a 4,000 year-old clay tablet that mentions infertility and divorce.

The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid-era, official media said, reporting the sixth such handover of its kind.

In Turkiye, a clandestine text emerges from ancient clay tablets dating back to the Hittite Empire in the second millennium BCE.

The ancient city of Babylon, first referenced in a clay tablet from the 23rd century BC, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Friday, after a vote that followed decades of lobbying by Iraq.

Scientists have found the world's oldest known marriage contract - a 4,000 year-old clay tablet that mentions infertility and divorce.