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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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Hundreds of 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets and Seals Unearthed in Iraq
More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...
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World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
Lyric poems introduced experimentation with different meters and all were sung by the poets to the accompaniment of a lyre, hence the name lyric poetry. Ancient lyric poets wrote short, direct poems, ...