Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12h
4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...
New Scientist11h
Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN12h
Archaeologists Decode Ancient Tablet That Says “A King Will Die”
A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...
The Independent3d
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...
Motherly on MSN12d
Teenage angst: From ancient Mesopotamia to my living room
Nothing validates my parenting quite like discovering an ancient Mesopotamian teen’s clay tablet complaint that could have ...
Archaeologists Unearthed An Ancient Network of Canals Beneath the World’s First City
History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...
China Internet Information Center2y
Ancient Tablets in Danger of Decay
Thousands of old tablets inscribed with Buddhist decrees at Beijing's centuries-old Yunju Temple are being damaged by pollution and exposure to air, experts say. But more research needs to be ...