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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.

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The Akkadian Empire formed 4,300 years ago, when Sargon the Great consolidated the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia under his rule. It extended along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from the Persian ...

The daughter of Sargon of Akkad, Enheduanna was the high priestess of the Akkadian moon god Nanna in Ur. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The daughter of Sargon of Akkad, Enheduanna ...