If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu ... was under the control of the Akkad dynasty from 2300 to 2150BC. The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near ... alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...