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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Sumerian rulers made sure that these strains ... The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization Has Not Buccellati sees the transformation of production, economic control ...

Sumerian scribes referred to the land immediately to their ... shortly after the collapse of the Akkadian empire around 2150 bce, until the reign of Pala-ishan around 1880 bce. It appears carved into ...