The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

according to a recent video published by the British Museum. The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...

Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

670 lb.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.13.1) Image: www.metmuseum.org. VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...