Category

Akkadian inscriptions

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Code of Hammurabi

Babylonian code of law or conduct

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir

clay tablet from ancient Babylon considered to be the oldest known written complaint

Georgia Guidestones

former monument in Georgia, United States

Ganjnameh Tourist Resort Complex

Ganjnameh () is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of meters across Mount Alvand. The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The inscription on the upper left was created on the order of Achaemenid King Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).

Cylinder of Nabonidus

clay cylinders with cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus

Kurkh Monoliths

Assyrian stelae

Babylonian Chronicles

tablets recording Babylonian history

Jar of Xerxes I

1857 archaeological discovery

Xerxes’s inscription

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

Manishtushu Obelisk

ancient stone monument

Rassam cylinder

cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

Al-Yahudu Tablets

Collection of archaeological artifacts

Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions

Achaemenid inscriptions in Egypt

Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet

cuneiform inscription

Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets

archaeological artifacts

Antiochus cylinder

a devotional cylinder written in traditional Akkadian by Antiochus I Soter, c. 250 BCE

Dynastic Chronicle

8th century BC Mesopotamian text

Egyptian alabaster jar