Ancient Writing & Sacred Texts

Words cut into stone, pressed into clay or copied onto papyrus carry voices across thousands of years. Decode the ancient world through hieroglyphs, cuneiform, inscriptions, runes and surviving sacred and literary texts, tracing how people recorded belief, memory, law and ideas.

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Cuneiform school exercise tablet

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Mesopotamian Writing: From Everyday Records to Tales of Myth

From grain records and school exercises to astronomy and the Epic of Gilgamesh, explore how cuneiform writing shaped everyday life and scholarship in ancient Mesopotamia.

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