January
08
/ 2020
An archaeologist has admitted that around 1,400 cuneiform tablets might have been stolen from Irisagrig, a 4,000-year-old lost Sumerian city in modern day Iraq. While the robbers obviously know the location of the ancient city, the authorities don’t! In a Live Science article we learn that ‘only looters have the location’ of this ancient city and perplexed archaeologists said this haul of newly examined tablets describes not only the palace of Irisagrig and the animals kept on the grounds, including lions and dogs; but that they also detail a festival held in a temple dedicated to a god of mischief. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"69101","attributes":{"alt":"A satellite image, captured on Sept. 14, 2017, shows \"site 1056,\" which might be the ancient city of Irisagrig. (DigitalGlobe)","class":"media-image","height":"485","style":"width
