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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says. “These are the remains of the scribal training process for the administrators of the state’s archives under Akkad imperial rule. It’s a ...