is now in the possession of the British Museum. These salaries weren't just about keeping workers drunk so they would be more compliant. In the ancient world, beer was a hearty, starchy brew that ...

This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for ... like all its neighbours in the British Museum – deserves more than a quick glance. It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old cuneiform ... section of the British Museum and director of the Girsu ...

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more ... The tablets became part of the British Museum's collection between 1892 and 1914 but had not been fully translated ...

An ancient Babylonian drawing of a ghost thought to be 3,500 years old has been found in the British ... cuneiform'. Dr Irving Finkel, curator of the Middle Eastern department at the museum ...

Irving Finkel, the curator of the British Museum’s Middle Eastern department and a specialist in cuneiform ... and set up two carnelian vessels of beer. You set in place a special vessel ...

The British Museum explains how to write the oldest human character, ' cuneiform ', which has been ... who keeps track of the amount of bread and beer distributed in Mesopotamia.