In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

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

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

The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq, contain plans of buildings, maps of canals, lists of commodities and the names and professions of citizens.

These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the mundane to the monumental: barley rations, livestock transactions, and even ...

The texts reveal a complex bureaucracy that went into running the ancient civilisation. These were the state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, in modern-day Tello, while the city was ...