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

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is ... Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues. The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt ...

And the drive that led ancient scribes to record the events and legends ... Archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur believe they found evidence of a museum in the ruins, which ...