The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

The most impassioned responses I’ve gotten—and not saying these people liked the book, by any stretch of the imagination— ...

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 ...

“The new tablets and sealings provide tangible evidence of a Sumerian city and its citizens under Akkad rule which will last about a century and half before the fall of the empire ...

and an evisceration of the entire concept of empire. In advance of the book's publication on February 25 and an appearance by El Akkad at Powell's City of Books, we spoke with the author about ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 20, 2025 shows a view of the Kaman-Kalehoyuk Archaeological Museum in Kirsehir province, Trkiye. (Photo by Safar ...

Karna is one of the most celebrated heroes of the Mahabharata. Born to an unwed princess, Kunti, through a boon granted by Rishi Durvasa, Karna was abandoned at ...