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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they ... the late seventh millennium BCE and onward in ...
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When did marriage begin?
How old is marriage as an institution ... ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a ...