Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3 天
4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape
Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...
Archaeological museum in central Türkiye offers visitors captivating journey through time
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 20, 2025 shows an archaeological excavation site near the Kaman-Kalehoyuk Archaeological ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN5 天
Dead sheep to gold: 4,000-year-old tablet reveals world’s first empire’s secrets
Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...
National Geographic news9 个月
Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
As experts in Akkadian writing were rare, most of the artifacts were simply left in storage at the museum. Over the next decade, Smith pored over them, perfecting his understanding of ancient ...
Archaeological museum in central Trkiye offers visitors captivating journey through time
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 ...
The Independent6 天
Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian administrators have been uncovered by archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq's State Board of ...