The Assyrian Empire

Due to their officious record keeping, we actually have a great deal of detail about how the people of ancient mesopotamia lived like the sumerians. The assyrians wrote on clay tablets, which is lucky for us, since it has made their texts incredibly durable. An enormous number of these pieces of writing have been recovered so many that an estimated 90 % have still never been looked at by a trained expert and far less translated. Just one out of countless examples is this letter from a child away at school complaining to his mother that the other children have nicer clothes than he does.