Tablets found in Iraq reveal that the bureaucracy already existed 4 thousand years ago

Baghdad Iraqi archaeologists and the British museum investigate more than 200 cuneiform tablets 4 thousand years old, discovered in the once Sumerian city of Girsu (current Tello), shedding light on the bureaucracy of the first known empire.

The discovery in the south of this Asian country – known as the cradle of civilization to identify the area that includes modern Iraq – now allows experts in the field to take a look at the world of ancient bureaucracy.

The researchers of the British and Iraqi Museum unearthed the ancient clay tablets and 60 stamps, information offered to the scientific community a detailed record of the primitive Akkadian Empire.

These tablets reveal everything from the mundane to the monumental: barley rations, cattle transactions, even the death of a sheep in the confines of the empire, the specialists highlighted.

It is about the spreadsheets of that great power; The first material evidence of the world’s first empire, told the British Dominical newspaper The Observer The conservative of the former Mesopotamia at the British Museum and director of the Giron Project, Sébastien Rey.