Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government BureaucracyIn southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...
They’ll tell you what life was like here and how, eventually our crops will dry out and the population will shrink, spelling the end of the Sumerian Empire. And all this? Well, it’ll be history.
New Scientist on MSN7d
Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian lifeWhen a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
“They record all aspects of Sumerian life, and above all they name real people, their names, their jobs,” he said. “The new tablets and sealings provide tangible evidence of a Sumerian city and its ...
They’ll tell you what life was like here and how, eventually our crops will dry out and the population will shrink, spelling the end of the Sumerian Empire. And all this? Well, it’ll be history.
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