The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Credit: Irak State Board of Antiquities & Heritage Al-Ahmar also highlighted the most significant archaeological findings from this season’s work, which included the discovery of a large number of ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to ... the British Museum and Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

In the second part of his address, Burns shifted the focus from Syria’s monuments to its current political tensions. He ...

Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not.

The experimental folk group’s gigs are astonishing spectacles – think Viking funeral mixed with a battle from The Lord of the Rings – and their ultimate goal is to whisk the listener off to an ancient ...

The giant tunnels of the Metropolitan Area Outer Outer Underground Discharge Channel. Credit: Dddeco / Wikimedia Commons The region where this drainage system is located has historically been prone to ...

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