Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer, portraying a dark time in the ... ransacked files and made off with an unknown number of priceless artifacts. Despite pleas from Iraqi curators, U.S. forces ...

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This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved ...