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

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

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

The 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written ...

Sumerian "Farmer's Almanac" The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...