Discovery · c. 79 CE

The last cuneiform tablet

Uruk, Iraq

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Long after Aramaic and Greek had replaced Akkadian in daily life, scholars attached to the temples of Babylon and Uruk kept writing on clay, mostly astronomy, ritual and omens. The latest datable tablet is an astronomical almanac from Uruk composed in the 70s CE, and with it a writing tradition more than three thousand years old fades from the record.

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