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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The oldest form of writing is cuneiform, which was developed by the Sumerians and was used by various people in the ancient Middle East. Image credit: Will Rodrigues/Shutterstock. DOWNLOAD PDF ...

It's actually one of the earliest artifacts of writing in the entire ... that is modern-day Iraq and thought to be written in Sumerian, an ancient language, though as with anything this old ...

“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 ...