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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
China Daily10d
Symposium puts spotlight on ancient civilization's global impact
A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
Sumerian civilization was the first society in history ... It became the building material of the temples and the first book of the art of writing. The clay could be used to make mudstone, which ...
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Mesopotamia Show at the Getty Teaches History, with Style
670 lb.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.13.1) Image: www.metmuseum.org. VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...