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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The 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 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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4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape
Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 4,000-year-old finding gives bleak assessment on 'red tape'
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
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4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape
“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 ...
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Mumbai: BPP, Central govt help revive one-of-a-kind Parsi museum
Supported by Ministry of Culture, Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony reopened on Thursday. It offers ...
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
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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Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
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 ...
Uncorking The Past: New Analysis Of Troy Findings Rewrites The Story Of Wine In The Early Bronze Age
Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...
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Nicholas II, Aššurbanipal, and Marco Polo Walk Into a Bookstore
Berdan's outstanding 2021 volume on the Aztecs. The latest entry is The Assyrians, by British Museum Mesopotamia expert Paul Collins (who also wrote the Sumerian entry back in 2021). Like other books ...