The script—not itself a language—was used ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq. CULTURE: Late Babylonian.

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 ... deciphered tablets written in Old Babylonian, a form of Akkadian ...