Before the recent Girsu excavations, the knowledge and functioning of the Akkadian Empire were poorly understood. The recent discovery of tablets is highly important because it provides the first ...

This page introduces a new way of exploring lexical semantics in Akkadian. How to cite this portal: Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, Tero Alstola, Sam Hardwick, Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén and ...

Some artefacts found at the site—on a mound known as Tablet Hill—also reveal, Rey says, a standard metric system, the Akkad-gur, used across the empire to measure quantities of resources such ...