1.   The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.

2.   There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets, long before Hipparchus.

3.   Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered several clay tablets thought to be more than three thousand years old.

4.   Although complaints about editing may be as old as clay tablets, there is a new edginess, which has inspired counterstrategies.

5.   But the presence of a clay tablet containing a dictionary listing names of professions seemed to confirm the age of the city.

6.   Lastly, the exhibition includes a variety of clay tablets, stamped with cuneiform characters.

7.   There were clay tablets with cuneiform writing from as early as the Babylonian period and other objects of uncertain origin.

8.   Will books as we know them become as obsolete as Babylonian clay tablets?

9.   Smart cards are not more dangerous than computers, or printers, or mimeographs or clay tablets -they process information.

10.   Sparkling in the exhibit are hundreds of objects, from a delicately braided gold necklace found in a royal tomb to remarkably intact cuneiform clay tablets.