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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, ...
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 ...
The Art Newspaper12d
Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...
The Independent16d
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...
China Daily12d
Symposium puts spotlight on ancient civilization's global impact
A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...
The Telegraph9d
Letters to the editor: Hundreds of administrative tablets unearthed from ancient Sumerian city
These include writing, the plough, the chariot and hydraulic engineering ... British Museum and Iraq have unearthed hundreds of administrative tablets from an ancient Sumerian city. Bureaucracy’s ...