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Modern civilization, however, has retrogressed from the Bronze Age Mesopotamian achievement of avoiding deepening financial ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

will once again bring to light the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, achievements that time could neither overcome nor conceal.” Girsu, Rey says, is one of the ...