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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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Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
"We know quite a bit about Mesopotamian cities in the south ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been ...
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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls
Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 and 2800 B.C. Several stone tombs were discovered ...
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‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
These artifacts include ancient hand axes from ... and large structural remains at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, Iraq. It has the potential to significantly enhance our ...