Sumerian Boundary stone - kudurru (1125-1100 BC). The cuneiform inscription records the granting by Eanna-shum-iddina, the governor of the Sealand, of five gur of corn land in the district of Edina in south Babylonia to a man called Gula-eresh.

A book of wax tablets shown in the Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in Bremen, Germany.

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Babylonian Map of the World: Incised on a clay tablet & dates to the 5th century BC. It was discovered at Sippar, southern Iraq, 60 miles (97 km) north of Babylon on the Euphrates River, & was published in 1899. The clay tablet resides at the British Museum.

Chinese oracle bone writing

French brocante and antiques from Tongue in Cheek.

Archaeologists have stumbled upon what is thought to be the most ancient harbor ever found in Egypt, along with the country's oldest collection of papyrus documents, Egyptian authorities say. The harbor goes back 4,500 years, to the days of the Pharaoh Kh

Wax tablets

A View On The Ancient Texts Found In the Indian Subcontinent. How they were made and how they are protected nowadays.

Hieroglyphics on PAPYRUS: Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plan. Papyrus cracked when folded and so was preserved in the form of a scroll.

Penn Museum Object B13885 - Tablet

With the Uighurs Securely in His Corner Chingis was ready to launch a full-scale invasion of Xi Xia. The people of Xi Xia, known as Tanguts, founded the Xi Xia Dynasty, or “Great State of White and High,” in 1038. The Tanguts were a people of Tibeto-Burman extraction who had developed a prosperous agrarian and livestock breeding culture and occupied well-fortified towns and cities. They aspired to some level of culture and soon developed their own Writing System, based on Chinese ideograms…

turtle shell - no, really.