The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

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

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... These were drawn by surveying scribes of the administration and are among the earliest known in the world.” The finds will go ...

“We often imagine Mesopotamian foodways in the Bronze Age ... Thousands of clay tablets uncovered across Mesopotamia show that scribes gave short shrift to an animal that was difficult to ...

Scribes mostly using logograms and faced with the problem ... He thinks much of the criticism is a function of a more general phenomenon: the tendency of Mesopotamian scholarship to look down on Elam.

Yet the Mediterranean factor in the Old Testament is comparable in magnitude with the Mesopotamian and Egyptian ... where the scribes have inserted a raised N in the Hebrew text to alter the ...