Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq.

In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the cuneiform tablets. Such dockets gave brief indication of names and dates and a summary of the contents which were useful to merchants.

The research was led by Şanlıurfa's Harran University along with various other participating universities examined a 4,000-year-old Assyrian tablet that contained a prenuptial agreement. They found ...

Cuneiform writing used a stylus to make wedge-shaped ... throughout the subsequent Babylonian and Assyrian periods. The new ...