A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a ... Written partially in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern writing system—the tablets contain records of state affairs, blueprints for ...

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