Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Subsequently, the patient had surgery that consisted of plantar midfoot ostectomy to remove the bony prominence that had caused the ulcer, midfoot osteotomy with excision of a wedge of bone ...

INJURED Geelong defender Matthew Egan has undergone more surgery on his troublesome foot. In an operation this week, surgeons fused Egan’s navicular bone to one of the cuneiform bones in his foot. The ...

Published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies,* the newly deciphered ... If one break a man's bone, they shall break his bone." Perhaps one of the most well-known features of Babylon was the ...

Adding insult to injury, DeMarcus Lawrence suffered a right foot injury in Week 4 with later tests revealing that he suffered ...

The oracle bone below was discovered in China over 100 years ago. At first, nobody knew what they were. Later, historians realised the words inscribed on them were questions and they were able to ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it ...

Imagine you are an archaeologist excavating at a new building site in East London, the location of an ancient cemetery. Deep down you uncover bones that look old. You recover a full skull with teeth, ...

What is a broken bone? A broken bone and a fracture are the same thing. The bone could be cracked, snapped, crushed or broken into a few pieces. No matter how the bone is broken, the first aid steps ...

Bone marrow is a soft, spongy material inside your bones where blood cells are made. These blood cells are important for a healthy immune system. (Photo Credit: Wendy Hiller Gee/Eric Olson/WebMD ...

Decoding such patterns reveals secrets hidden in everything from bone fossils to ancient languages ... trying to put together the works written in cuneiform script — one of the earliest forms ...