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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 Babylonian map's secrets revealed by British Museum expertsStored in the British Museum, the map indicates Mesopotamia as the "known world" surrounded by the "bitter river," reflecting the Babylonian belief about the center of the world. Besides ...
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 ...
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 ...
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It's the 'First Material Evidence' of World's First EmpireArchaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...
This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...
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.
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