Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

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".

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

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.

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.