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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 ...
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It's the 'First Material Evidence' of World's First Empire
Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...
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27,000 artifacts returned to Iraqi National Museum
The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.
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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 ...
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Sumerian Harp, Iraq, 2500 BCE
This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved ...