The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

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 ...

Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.

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.

“These are the spreadsheets of empire, the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world,” Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and ...