Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and director of the Girsu Project, said he has been astonished by the detail of the records as "everything was noted down".

“These are the spreadsheets of empire, the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world,” Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The most-visited attraction in the UK for the second year in a row was the British Museum, according to official figures. The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024 ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

Sébastien Rey, curator at the British Museum, described these ancient tablets ... was the one who united the whole of Mesopotamia. “Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...