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The Bashplemi Lake Tablet was found near Lake Bashplemi in the Dmanisi region of Georgia. Made of basalt and thought to date to around the first millennium BCE, it is inscribed with a previously unknown writing system, 60 characters in length.
There have been other similar discoveries in the region, including another cuneiform tablet that details the purchase of an entire city (and, presumably, the furniture in it), which was uncovered ...
The Mount Ebal curse tablet is an inscribed folded lead sheet reportedly found on Mount Ebal in the West Bank, near Nablus, in December 2019. The artifact, discovered by a team of archaeologists led by Scott Stripling, was found by wet-sifting the discarded material from Adam Zertal 's 1982–1989 archaeological excavation.
The Kish tablet is a limestone tablet found at the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babylon Governorate, Iraq. A plaster cast of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum , while the original is housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad . [ 1 ]
The unusual written language has “no close parallels,” researchers said. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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A large number of sources in popular and social media, and even some scholarly articles, show a wrong image of the tablet -- specifically, the modern fancy artifact hanging from the wall of one of the "reconstructed" Dispilio village houses, whose inscription bears no resemblance to the markings on the legitimate tablet. [7]
The mysterious case of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has been marred by wild conspiracy theories – and they may have literally driven her father to his death, her aunt said.