According to the new results of the world’s civilizations, Mesopotamia, the red tape of the state bureaucracy covers more than 4,000 years.
Hundreds of administrative pills – the initial physical evidence of the first empire of recorded history – has been discovered by the British Museum and Iraqi archaeologists. These texts describe the government’s minarets and a complex bureaucracy has been revealed – the red tape of an ancient civilization.
Regarding the modern era, it was the state archive of the ancient Sameerian site in Jerisu, while the city was under the rule of the academic family from 2300 to 2150BC.
“This is not the opposite of the White Hall,” said Sabstin Rei, curator and director of the British Museum of ancient Mesopotamia. Gorsu Project. “These are the spreadsheets of the empire, which is the first material evidence of the world’s first empire – the real proof of Imperial Control and how it actually worked.”
Gorsu, one of the oldest cities in the world, was honored as the sanctity of the Somerian brave deity Nangarso in the third thousand BC. At its peak, covering hundreds of hectares, it was included in the Mesopotamine King Sargon, a conquered independent smarter cities near 2300BC. He actually came from the Akad city, whose location is still unknown but it is thought he was near Baghdad.
Ray said: “Sargon developed a new form of governance by conquering all the Somerian cities of Mesopotamia, which he creates, which most historians call the world’s first kingdom.” He added, until the latest excavation, information about this empire was limited to pieces and bombings only to the royal shelly, or after that copies of Acadian Shalhli “which are not completely reliable”.
Regarding the new discovery, he said: “This is very important because, for the first time, we have solid evidence. He is surprised in these records:” They note exactly everything. If the crowd dies on the edge of the kingdom, it will be mentioned. From animals, from flour to textile, tablets containing precious stones.
Dana Good Burn Brown, a British American Consulate, is cleaning bullets to copy them. This work is both diligent and interesting, he said: “People just think that things come out of the ground and it looks like you see them in the museum, but they don’t.”
A tablet contains a list of various items: “250 grams of gold / 500 grams of silver /… thick cows … / 30 liters of beer.” Even the names and professions of the citizens are recorded, Ray said: “Women, men, children – we have names for everyone.
In the state, women had important offices. So we have high priests, for example, though it was a society led by men. But the role of a woman was at least higher than many other societies, and it is undeniable based on the evidence we have.
The jobs listed include stones from cutting to temple floors. Ray said: “To be able to sweep the floor where the gods and high priests were located, it was very important. The theory was all belonging to the gods of the ancient Mesopotamia. The Society worked for the state of the Temple.
The bullets were found at the site of a large state archive building, made of mud brick walls and divided into rooms or offices. Some bullets include construction projects of buildings, field plans and canals.
Archaeologists said this at the GRSU project, which is a co -operation between the British Museum and the Iraqi Government’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, which is financing the Meditor Trust, a Charitable Foundation.
The site was actually excavated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and after two Gulf wars, the robbery targeted it: “Academy pills were either looted or carelessly removed from their archeology and thus it was difficult to understand.
“Now the key is that we were able to dig them properly in the context of their archeology. The new detection was saved in the situation, so in their original context, and we can certainly say that we really have the first physical evidence of royal control in the world.
Before the possible debt to the British Museum, these results have been sent to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad for further study.
The Acaden Empire lasted for only 150 years, which ended with a rebellion that secured the city’s independence.
