Image Credits

Ashur, Kisir. Clay Tablet Providing Insight to Early Medical History. Image. 2018. The British Museum. https://image.sciencenordic.com/1453676.jpg?imageId=1453676&width=1058&height=604.

BabelStone. Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer. Image. March 25, 2012. The British Museum, London. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_writing_tablet_recording_the_allocation_of_beer.jpg. 

Ebabbar Archive. Record of expenditures of silver. Image. February 14, 2017. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Record_of_expenditures_of_silver_-_Ebabbar_archive.jpg. 

King Tushratta. Amarna Letter of Marriage Negotiation. Image. 2008. The British Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AmarnaLetterOfMarriageNegotiation-BritishMuseum-August19-08.jpg

Louvre Museum. Mesopotamian Balance Sheet. Image. June 14, 2006. Louvre Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balance_sheet_Mesopotamia_Louvre_AO6036.jpg 

Shaninga. Workers Salaries. Image. October 20, 2007. Louvre Museum, Paris. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Workers_salaries_AO6043_mp3h9134.jpg.

Tek-en, Goran. Map of Mesopotamia. Image. Wikimedia. January 28, 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N-Mesopotamia_and_Syria_english.svg 

The British Museum. Tablet Displaying the Rules of the Royal Game of Ur. Image. 2010. The British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_Rm-III-6-b.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Panel with striding lion. Image. TheMetMuseum. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322586

University of Illinois. Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet. Image. Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/img-DB/recognition/Images10/1913.14.1741.jpg.

Wikimedia. Ziggarat of Ur. Image. Wikimedia. July 1, 2006. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ziggarat_of_Ur_001.jpg 

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