A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government BureaucracyThe artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian lifeWhen a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...
Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found ...
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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girlsOnce part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 ... on the idea that early Bronze Age societies had ...
Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native of the elusive ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project ...
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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 ...
Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...
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