The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of ... 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian administrators in Girsu.

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.

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The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion. These administrative tablets, containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record the affairs of the state ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

A clay seal featuring an impression of the Akkadian governor Lugal-ushumgal ... Sebastien Rey (centre), the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, and his team Photo by Ellie Atkins ...

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