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Ancientists in the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu or in Tello, today in southern Iraq, have discovered more than 200 clay wedges and 60 seals associated with the ancient Mesopotamian government. Tablets reveal evidence of complex bureaucratic systems.
A team of archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have discovered hundreds of executive tablets, dating back to the Akkadian period (2300-215 B.C.), with details ranging from academic texts to barley rations. These discoveries are part of the National Archives of the ancient Sumerian ruins, and the city was under the control of the Akkadian dynasty, the first known empire.
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“These are spreadsheets for the Empire, the first physical evidence of the world’s first empire, the real evidence of the control of the Empire and how it actually works,” Sébastien Rey, an ancient Mesopotamian curator of the British Museum, and the director of the project Girsu, told Girsu Project. guardian.
“It’s very important because this is the first time we have concrete evidence – on-site crafts.” “They absolutely notice everything. If a sheep dies on the edge of the empire, they’ll notice it. They’re obsessed with bureaucracy.”
Although it remains a patriarchal society, one of the most notable findings is the inclusion of women in important state offices, including some high priestess roles, which is very unusual in comparable ancient societies.
Girsu is one of the oldest cities in the world and is considered a sanctuary for the Sumerian hero Ningirsu in the 3rd millennium BC. In 2300 BC, Sargon, the king of Mesopotamia, eventually conquered an independent city, which was eventually conquered by Sargon, the king of Mesopotamia, who was conquered from the city of Akkad (think close to today’s Baghdad).
All Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia succumbed to the same fate and were conquered by Sargon. However, so far there has been little evidence outside this time, beyond the unreliable copy of the Akkadian inscription created later. Instead, these tablets were written in early cuneiform writing systems.
These tablets were identified in large national archives buildings built from traditional mud brick walls.
Seals found on site can also be rebuilt. Art newspaper It showed Naram-Sin’s “full control” of the empire, reported Thursday.
Other artifacts found on a mound called the Tablet Hill Shed on the Standard Metrics system, and visual publicity by Naram-Sin, wearing a horn crown, similar to God.
Girsu was originally excavated by a team of French archaeologists in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the results were poorly recorded, and then after two Gulf Wars, the raiders targeted the site.
These latest excavations were carried out as part of the GIRSU project, a collaboration between the British Museum and the National Antiquities and Heritage Committee of the Government of Iraq, funded by the charitable foundation Meditation Trust. While they plan to continue working on the site, they also plan to revisit previously unearthed artifacts. The people who were recently unearthed will be placed in the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, where they will study further.
The highly informative cuneiform piece not only illuminates the way the empire works, but also conveys greater social values such as education and female leadership.
