Some of the most important sources for this era are the writing tablets from the fort at Vindolanda in Northumberland, mostly dating to 90-110.

The earliest recorded mention of dried fruits can be found in Mesopotamian tablets dating to about 1700 BC, which contain what are probably the oldest known written recipes.

The second tablet, dating from 1512 (found in the synagogue Xuanzhang Daojing Si) details their Jewish religious practices.

There were over 200 of these writing tablets dating to AD 95-115.

It contained tablets dating to 595-570 BC.

The most important finds discovered so far are an official building with an archive of cuneiform tablets dating to the Hittite empire, and a large store house.

The oldest written material in the Library is a cuneiform tablet dating from 2040 B.C.

The grouping of compositions known as the Decad is attested in several literary catalogues of tablets dating to Mesopotamia's Old Babylonian period.

It is recorded in the Linear B script on tablets dating from the 15th or 14th century BC onwards.

The earliest known depiction of a tracheotomy is found on two Egyptian tablets dating back to circa 3600 BC.