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The hymn survives in at least 20 cuneiform manuscripts copied between the seventh and second centuries B.C.E., which suggests the hymn was very popular at the time.

The six cuneiform clay tablets, dating back to the Third Ur, Old Akkadian, and Old Babylonian periods (24th to 18th centuries BCE), contain economic, administrative, and religious content.

Researchers have pieced together a lost Babylonian hymn using AI. Credit: Enrique Jiménez / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 A hymn that had been lost for almost two thousand years has been reconstructed by ...

The cuneiform clay tablets repatriated by Türkiye's Culture and Tourism Ministry to Iraq are on display, Ankara, Türkiye, June 30, 2025. (DHA Photo) Türkiye's Culture and Tourism Ministry returned six ...

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