The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... seal impressions of Akkadian administrators in Girsu. These clay records are incredibly detailed, showing fierce governmental ...

was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings. The tablets ...

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 ...

Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets ... were the devices that led to the possibility of writing. The clay tokens came in multiple sizes, and are believed to have been shaped ...

where markings on clay tokens that served as financial records evolved into cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing. Early financial innovations influenced humanity’s concept of time. A ...