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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, ...
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The Mountain of the Amorites, Tidnum and Ahlamu-Arameans
He was obviously a personification of the nomads of the desert and steppe. The Sumerian myth of Martu tells that he dwells in the mountains…he carries a weapon. He eats truffles in the foot of the ...
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...