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Dead sheep to gold: 4,000-year-old tablet reveals world’s first empire’s secrets
Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is ... The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest ...
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Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
The texts reveal a complex bureaucracy that went into running the ancient civilisation. These were the state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, in modern-day Tello, while the city was ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...