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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, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 4,000-year-old finding gives bleak assessment on 'red tape'
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
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Abandoned Assyrian capital brought to life in new magnetic survey
A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...
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The Tombs of the Assyrian Queens Yaba, Banitu, and Atalia
The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...
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4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape
A discovery in southern Iraq has given us a rare glimpse into the world of ancient bureaucracy. Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 ...