The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

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This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...