New Scientist on MSN12d
Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
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Timeline of Assyrian History
2000 B.C. (2750) Assyrian merchant colonies in Cappadocia are well established by this time. From the Assyrian clay tablets found at these sites, trade with the city of Ashur in tin and textiles was ...
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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 ...
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The Penn Museum Presents Preserving Assyria
Recovery of the previously unknown tablets, and the broader restoration effort ... The residence, also known as the Neo-Assyrian Southwest Palace, is referenced in a large clay brick (701-693 BCE) ...