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A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

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 ...

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The findings reveal the surprising existence of a highly detailed and extensive bureaucratic system in ancient Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago. The discovered clay tablets represent the state archives ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...