They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

These clay records are incredibly detailed, showing fierce governmental oversight by the Akkadian Empire. “They note absolutely everything down,” Rey tells the Observer. “If a sheep dies at ...

Some artefacts found at the site—on a mound known as Tablet Hill—also reveal, Rey says, a standard metric system, the Akkad-gur, used across the empire to measure quantities of resources such ...

Star Wars comes up as another metaphor, for how often he says people realize the U.S. acts more like the Galactic Empire and less like the righteous Rebel Alliance. The weightless time El Akkad ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

Yet, renewed efforts are on to forge a ‘hard state’, raising two questions: before opting for an authoritarian or military ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets ...

From the founding of the Akkadian Empire (2350 to 2150 BCE) to the present day, the world has seen a bloody scramble for territories, markets, resources and glory. But wars have also led to the ...

They date back to when Girsu, one of the world's oldest cities, was under the control of the Akkad dynasty from 2300 ... These are the spreadsheets of empire, the very first material evidence ...