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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More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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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 ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized ... Near East and Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass: Peabody Museum [Harvard], 1996):131. This text is adapted from Michael ...

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 ...

Housed in the British Museum's Northwest Palace collection ... This technology proved particularly valuable in the empire's expansion throughout Mesopotamia, where rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates ...

TEHRAN - Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, has emphasized the global significance of Jiroft’s ancient civilization and called for greater ...

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