More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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At a rock art site located on the western bank of the Nile River, an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a […] ...

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