Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. A discovery in ...

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 ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East ... the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Classics, ...

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A discovery in southern Iraq has given us a rare glimpse into the world of ancient bureaucracy. Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals ...