Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

Among several bronze lion-weights found at Nineveh some had both the Akkadian and Aramaic text inscribed on them. They bore the names of the Assyrian kings at the time of use, including Shalmansser ...

In Ancient Akkad, Mathayus grows up as ... a desolate training camp for six years by king Hammurabi's clemency. When he returns as a Black Scorpio, Sargon has bloodily seized the throne and ...

but it was one of the independent Sumerian cities that were conquered around 2300BC by the Mesopotamian king Sargon. Sargon originally came from the city of Akkad, whose location remains unknown ...