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Neo-Assyrian clay tablet from the 7th century BC inscribed with dense cuneiform writing, known as the Flood Tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, displayed in the British Museum. Rock relief and inscription at Behistun, Iran, showing figures in profile and ancient script carved into a cliff. Stone tablet with rows of Hieroglyphic Luwian script carved in relief, showing intricate symbols and characters, from Turkey. Ashokan pillar Sumerian cuneiform tablet The Code of Hammurabi diorite stela, with carved figures at the top showing Hammurabi seated with cuneiform inscriptions below. Narmer Palette The first side of the Palermo Stone, a dark, irregularly shaped stone slab inscribed with rows of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Taking prisoners Persian cuneiform
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Epic of Gilgamesh
The Flood Tablet, 11th cuneiform tablet in a series relating the Gilgamesh epic,...
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Darius's trilingual inscription at Bisotun, Iran
© Jean-Philippe Tournut—Moment/Getty Images
Hieroglyphic Luwian text, Turkey
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Ashokan pillar
Inscription on Ashokan pillar, Lauriya Nandangarh, Bihar state, India.
Frederick M. Asher
Sumerian cuneiform tablet
An account of barley distribution, probably from Uruk, Mesopotamia, c. 3100–2900...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988, 1988.433.1, www.metmuseum.org
Code of Hammurabi
Diorite stela inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, 18th century bce.
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Narmer Palette
From Hierakonpolis, beginning of 1st dynasty, c. 2900 bce;...
Album/Alamy
Palermo Stone
The front side of the Palermo Stone, which preserves the fragmentary regnal annals...
© DEA Picture Library—De Agostini/Getty Images
Taking prisoners
A larger-than-life Ramses II towering over his prisoners and clutching them by the...
Egyptian Museum, Cairo; photograph, O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic Image Collection
Persian cuneiform
Persian cuneiform from the Xerxes inscription at Persepolis.
Courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of The University of Chicago
Scapulimancy
Ancient Chinese writing adorning a bovine scapula used for divination during the...
© Xinhua/Shutterstock.com
Tablet inscribed with Linear B script, c. 1400 bce, in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Jebulon (CC0 1.0 Public Domain)
Umbrian language
Umbrian-language passus from one of the Iguvine Tables.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Indus script
A Harappan seal and its impression showing the Indus, or Harappan, script.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Dodge Fund, 1949, 49.40.1, www.metmuseum.org
Rosetta Stone
A decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes in Greek, hieroglyphic Egyptian, and demotic Egyptian...
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Writing on seals
Indus script appears commonly on square stamp seals like this one, featuring a central...
© Angelo Hornak/Alamy
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