Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

Sumerian cities were known for their complex ... These were drawn by surveying scribes of the administration and are among the earliest known in the world.” The finds will go to the Iraqi ...

It would take the decipherment of cuneiform, however, for any Elamite history to come to light. Sumerian scribes referred to the land immediately to their east using the logogrammatic sign NIM. In ...

Tax Reforms in England (16th–17th Century): Tudor and Stuart monarchs intensified taxation through the enactment of excise taxes and customs duties. The Bill of Rights (1689) established legislative ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

And the drive that led ancient scribes to record the events and legends ... Archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur believe they found evidence of a museum in the ruins, which ...