Sunday 16/March/2025 – 12:05 PM
Researchers and employees of the British Museum contributed to the discovery of archaeological panels belonging to the Iraqi government for thousands of years, indicating the obsession with the civilization of Iraq by bureaucracy.
The Guardian newspaper published a report indicating that archaeologists from the British Museum and the Iraqi Government Antiquities and Heritage Authority discovered hundreds of administrative panels that represent the oldest material evidence of the first empire in the recorded history that shows the ancient stone panels in Mesopotamia, unusual details and the scope of governance in the cradle of the world civilizations.
Discovering raised in Iraq
It is worth noting that these discoveries were reached by archaeologists in the Girso project, a cooperative project between the British Museum and the Iraqi Government Antiquities and Heritage Authority, with funding from the “Meditor Trust” charitable Foundation.
The Guardian report indicated that these discoveries confirm that Iraq was a lover of bureaucracy 4000 years ago, where Qalcebastian Ray, the Secretary of the Museum of the Old Mesopotamia and the director of the Girus Project: “This is the schedules of the empire’s data, and it is the first material evidence of the first empire in the world and the real evidence of the control of the empire and how it was actually operating.”
These texts detail the government and reveal the complex bureaucracy that accompanied an ancient civilization.
The texts were discovered on the old Somari site, currently known as Tilo, when the city was under the control of the Akad dynasty between the years 2300 and 2150 BC.
