Baghdad: Researchers from the British Museum, in cooperation with the Iraqi government, have announced the discovery of the world's oldest bureaucratic administrative system. This significant finding was revealed through ongoing excavations in the Gershu area, offering new insights into Iraqi antiquities.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, the British Museum confirmed that the excavations in the Gershu area unearthed administrative clay tablets inscribed with bureaucratic texts. These texts, dating back to the Akkadian period, are approximately 2,300 years old and provide evidence of an advanced system for organizing the affairs of state institutions.

Sebastian Re, director of the Gershu excavation project, emphasized to the newspaper that these tablets represent "the first administrative documents in the world," proving that the civilization of Mesopotamia and its cities was the first empire in history to adopt a bureaucratic system for managing state affairs. Re noted, "This is the first time we have seen clearly how the affairs of the state were organized administratively."