4,000-Year-Old Tablets Reveal Lost Magic, Medicine, and Ancient Kings

Researchers in Denmark completed the first full digital analysis of a museum collection of ancient cuneiform tablets.

The tablets contain texts on magic, medicine, administration, letters, and royal lists, including a rare anti-witchcraft ritual.

The findings offer new insight into early Mesopotamian state administration, religion, and royal ideology.

Digitizing the fragile 4,000-year-old tablets also preserves them for future research.