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 ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

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 ...

Afterwards, the keeper of the Middle East department at the British Museum, John Curtis ... dates its emergence to Proto-Cuneiform tablets used in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Tokens of ...

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.

A new museum hoping to tell the 350-year history of Irish soldiers and their families in the British Army has been awarded £250,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. UNTOLD: The Museum has ...

From the stone that unlocked hieroglyphics to towering statues and eerie mummies, the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt collection is a must-see for history lovers. ByDavid Nikel , Senior Contributor.

Not merely the higher divisions of the class, but the genera and species are all fully characterised, and to each species is appended a list of the specimens of it contained in the British Museum.