The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
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 ...
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
Euronews (English) on MSN6d
4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tapeArchaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...
Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...
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Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...
While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...
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.
Indian Defence Review on MSN10d
The Race to Crack the World’s Oldest Writing: How Four Scholars Unlocked an Ancient MysteryA fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.
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