These daughters of foreign kings are often only mentioned in cuneiform texts and are not known from other sources.

Cuneiform texts were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed used as a stylus.

Today, we can write a word such as TED in Egyptian hieroglyphics and in cuneiform script, because both of these were deciphered in the 19th century.

This tablet, believed to have been written about 1800 BC, has a table of four columns and 15 rows of numbers in the cuneiform script of the period.

A clay cylinder covered in Akkadian cuneiform script, damaged and broken, the Cyrus Cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi culturalism. In this enthralling talk Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, traces 2600 years of Middle Eastern history through this single object.

(Volume 1) in the original Akkadian cuneiform and transliteration commentary and glossary are in English Analysis of Epic External links Translations of the legends of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian language can be found in Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature , Oxford 1998 .

See also Babylon Babylonia History of zero Numeral system Notes Bibliography External links Babylonian numerals Cuneiform numbers Babylonian Mathematics High resolution photographs, descriptions, and analysis of the root(2) tablet (YBC 7289) from the Yale Babylonian Collection Photograph, illustration, and description of the root(2) tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection Babylonian Numerals by Michael Schreiber, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.