Among the 478 artifacts found during the milestone ... were used by all members of society—regardless of rank—in ancient Mesopotamia as a method of proving ownership or signing ones name ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu ... in 1877 and removed all the artifacts he could find, including a ...

“It is really exciting that ancient artifacts from Mesopotamia help to explain and record key events in Earth history such as fluctuations in the magnetic field,” said study coauthor Mark ...

The process appears to take place in a temple in ancient Mesopotamia around 3,100 B.C., dating the tablet back to 5,000 years ago. As part of a private collection, the historical artifact which ...