The tablet depicts a right triangle with three sets of cuneiform numbers. One set of numbers is along each of the two sides of the triangle, representing the length and height of the triangle.

It was not until 1857 that the decipherment of cuneiform was completed. Large numbers of these tablets were on the antiquities market c. 1900 and this one was bought by George Titus Barham (1859 ...

Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The script—not itself a language—was used by scribes of multiple cultures over that time to write a number of languages other than ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known ...