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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Quant.Geek, post: 7398167, member: 74799&quot;]An Elrathia Kingi trilobite from the Wheeler Shale Formation in Utah. These buggers roamed the seas around the Mid-Cambrian era (about 505 million years ago)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Elrathia_Kingi.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An Knightia Eocaena fresh water schooling fish that swam during the Eocene epoch (56 to 33.9 million years ago) in North America. They are similar to herrings. Since they are schooling fish, there are tons of them and are one of the more common fish fossils that are found. This particular specimen was from the Great River Formation in Wyoming.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Knightia_Eocaena.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a lower paleolithic black flint hand axe that is dated to be around 300,000–40,000 BCE..</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/flint_axe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a more <i>recent </i>cuneiform foundation cone of Išme-Dagān (1776-1736 BCE) of Isin in Assyria:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Cuneiform.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The cuneiform transcription and its english-equivalent are below.&nbsp; It requires a Unicode-conformant cuneiform font (see <a href="http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html</a>):</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1286981[/ATTACH]</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Išme-Dagān, mighty man, king of Isin, king of the Four Quarters (of the world): when he cancelled the taxes of Nippur, the city beloved by Enlil, and excused its men from military/corvee service, he built the city wall of Isin, naming it “Išme-Dagān, with Enlil, the might of(?) the great God</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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