For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of ...

Before printing presses, before paper itself, humans found ways to preserve their thoughts, beliefs, and stories on everything from clay tablets to papyrus scrolls and carefully prepared animal skins.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens on the ...