Tablets Reveal Details Of Assyrian Empire

Partially decoded clay tablets discovered in 2009 during the excavation of an Assyrian governor's palace in what is now southeastern Turkey are revealing the inner workings of the Assyrian Empire, one of the greatest and bloodiest tyrannies in ancient Babylonia.

"Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf," according to National Geographic News."Palace scribes jotted down seemingly mundane state affairs on the tablets during the Late Iron Age—which lasted from roughly the end of the ninth century B.C. until the mid-seventh century B.C."