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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 stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...