Archaeology breakthrough as 4,000-year-old finding gives bleak assessment on 'red tape'
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
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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 ... in modern-day Tello, while the city was controlled by the Akkad dynasty from 2300 to 2150BC. While the texts may not be great ...
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...
The revival of Jordan's 1,600-year-old camino
In Jordan, a 50km pilgrimage trail follows the path of a 4th-Century nun who journeyed through the Holy Land – centuries ...
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Concrete Over Country: Iraq’s Green Vanishes
The Iraqi Ministry of Environment recently confirmed what most residents already knew: more than half of the city’s green spaces have been erased since 2023, casualties in a battle where real estate ...
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Mesopotamian irrigation system discovered, sheds light on early farming practices
A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia ... methods to uncover and map the ancient irrigation network ...
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Explore the Ancient Greek World Through a Revolutionary Digital Map
A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...