Tag: cuneiform

  • Nation & World

    From Iraq and back, via 9/11 and Harvard

    A Harvard authority on ancient Iraq spent several years studying clay tablets looted from that nation, which had been stored in a World Trade Center building that was destroyed on 9/11. The tablets eventually were retrieved, restored, translated, and returned.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Baking in the details

    A long-term Semitic Museum project labors to conserve thousands of 3,500-year-old clay tablets that detail everyday life in an ancient city.

    4 minutes