The Akkadian Empire is thought to be the oldest empire in recorded history, but there is still much we do not know about its people or the figures who established it. Image credit: Eric de ...

Evidence of the Akkadian Empire’s administration. Girsu held religious importance in Sumerian times as a sanctuary for the god Ningirsu. Around 2300 BC, ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. View on euronews ...

Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann PublicAffairs, $30. Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.