Cuneiform tablets, ranging in date from the mid-third millennium BC to the Achaemenid period (sixth-fourth centuries BC). Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum
Cuneiform tablets, ranging in date from the mid-third millennium BC to the Achaemenid period (sixth-fourth centuries BC). Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum
UK hands back largest seizure of stolen Iraqi artefacts
Ancient inscribed tablets date back more than 4,000 years and form an impressive body of detailed records
