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The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...
Marble sample from Namibia: Starting from two crevices filled with light-colored crustal limestone, the tubes have grown downwards in a parallel arrangement. Credit: Cees Passchier Professor Cees ...
Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...