Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon

In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to
write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian
languages on clay tablets. Dr Frances Reynolds, Shillito Fellow in
Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies and St Benet's Hall
Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon - In ancient Iraq,
scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of
thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay
tablets. Akkadian, a language related to Arabic and Hebrew, was
still written in Babylonia after the conquest of Alexander the
Great. Newly published tablets show scholars in Babylon trying to
boost the temple's dwindling power under imperial rule. Humanities
Light Night – Oxford Research Unwrapped! As part of the national
Being Human Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival,
Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a
spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all,
including a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe
humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the
work of Oxford Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson
and Armand D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities
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relating to the theme ‘Discovery’. This event was part of the
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