Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

The tablets became part of the British Museum's collection between 1892 and 1914 but had not been fully translated and published until now. In Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia, there was a ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

Smith’s work revealed that Mesopotamian writings included an account of a great flood similar to the one described in the Book of Genesis. However, the tablets long predated the Bible ...

Three inscribed tablets found in Romania may be 1,000 years older than the oldest examples of writing from Mesopotamia. They are probably not that old, but they do illuminate the contacts between ...

In the British Museum, we look after about 130,000 written tablets from Mesopotamia, and scholars from all over the world come to study the collection. While experts are still working hard on the ...

In the British Museum, we look after about 130,000 written tablets from Mesopotamia, and scholars from all over the world come to study the collection. While experts are still working hard on the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia ... indirect evidence such as cuneiform tablets. Now, though, researchers have identified ...