More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered ... the British Museum's curator for ancient Mesopotamia and director of the Girsu ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic ...

An archeological site at Girsu, in modern-day south-central Iraq, a major city in the ancient Mesopotamian civilization ... the oldest civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. Numerous archaeological ...

That enabled Mesopotamian rule ... and ‘Private’ Domains in Early Mesopotamia,” in Hudson, Michael and Levine, Baruch (eds.), Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical Antiquity ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on ... [Related: Ancient Mesopotamian texts show when and why humans first kissed.] “The invention of writing marks the ...

In Mesopotamia, anger was associated specifically with the feet. Figure: Modern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski et al. 2024. Another way the emotions of ancient ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region ... "Even in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a rough understanding ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region ... Even in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a rough understanding ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian ... the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, creating what ...