Middle Eastern objects in the British Museum

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

library

ancient Mesopotamian board game

approximately 4,500 years old, constructed in the form of a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace represented on each side through elaborately inlaid mosaics

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

6th century BCE Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian with a labeled depiction of the known world

Records of the Assyrian king Sennacherib

piece of rock crystal

collection of ca. 180 gold and silver objects and ca. 200 coins from Achaemenid Persia, found by the Oxus in 1877–1880

Ancient Neo-Assyrian record of astronomical observations of Venus

ancient musical instruments found in Iraq

clay cylinders with cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus

treasure hoard from Saqqez County, Iran

موقع أثري في إسرائيل

canaanite inscriptions on clay sherds

type of glass beaker originating in the Middle East or Norman Sicily and dating from the 10th-12th centuries AD

Assyrian palace reliefs

1857 archaeological discovery

cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

prehistoric burial practice

cuneiform inscription

archaeological artifact discovered in 1869

ancient copper sculpture from Ur, Iraq

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

proto-Hebrew inscription

tablet inscription of the reign of Sennacherib

ancient cylinder seal