The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Sumerians (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of Lagash over its neighbour Umma. It shows various battle and religious scenes and is named after the vultures that can be seen in one of these scenes. This is the oldest known historical record in the World. The stele was originally carved out of a single slab of limestone, but only seven fragments are known today. We found this bad boy in Southern Iraq. In case you were wondering; its double sided!!
I know you already know what a Stele is but I will just drop this here =p.
People circa 1000 BC -2600 BC go ape poop over these things. You may be more familiar with my homie Hammurabi. His code was found on a Stele. Now that I think about it I may bring Stele’s back myself. gofundme maybe? 🙂