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Archaeologists Decode Ancient Tablet That Says “A King Will Die”
A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...
New Scientist on MSN6d
Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
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What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation?
Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh.
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
Mesopotamia—“the land between two ... and was the crowning glory of the king’s homage to Babylon’s ancient Akkadian past. Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence It ...
How the Euphrates shaped Eridu, the oldest city in history
The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.