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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 ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

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Two Point Museum, developed by Two Point Studios and published by Sega, is the latest instalment in the Two Point series. Known for the series’ quirky take on simulation games, Two Point Museum ...

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 ...

Historically, Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its tributaries for crop irrigation. The ability to divert water from these rivers through canals was essential for the sustainability ...