Before the recent Girsu excavations, the knowledge and functioning of the Akkadian Empire were poorly understood. The recent discovery of tablets is highly important because it provides the first ...

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The Akkadian Empire (ca. 2340–2198 b.c.) represented something entirely new in human history: a dynasty that conquered and ruled over a vast territory, incorporating people of different ...

Its Akkadian inscription dedicates the offering ... There are worse places than central Anatolia to base an empire, but not many. Halfway between the Black Sea and the deserts of Syria, Hattuşa ...

These clay records are incredibly detailed, showing fierce governmental oversight by the Akkadian Empire. “They note absolutely everything down,” Rey tells the Observer. “If a sheep dies at ...

The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely considered the first empire in history, centered in Mesopotamia under Sargon of Akkad and lasting 180 years. From Mesopotamia’s first spark ...

A clay seal featuring an impression of the Akkadian governor Lugal-ushumgal ... as resembling a “toolbox of empire”. Tobin Hartnell, the director of the Center for Archaeology and Cultural ...

Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals, offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets, ...

Believed to date back to the 15th century B.C.E., the artifact’s surface is carved with cuneiform script in the ancient language of Akkadian. Now considered extinct, Akkadian is the earliest ...