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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 twins' burial challenges the traditional belief that Roman society treated infant deaths with indifference.

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Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... Girsu, known as one of the world’s oldest cities, was once revered as the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic god Ningirsu.

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