Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Being close to the ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia ... come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

What did the Sumerians sell? Trade consisted of wool, cloth, jewelery, oil, and grains, among other products. In addition to its location at the crossroads of numerous trade routes, Babylon was a ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

Still, while much of this dating is based on the educated compilation of known facts, concrete (or rather, clay) evidence was discovered from the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. The oldest ...

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform ... on the tablets—which include Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite—the overwhelming majority ...

His work on bilingual texts and multilingualism in Ancient Mesopotamia contributes to the questions of imperial and professional identities. Keywords: Sumerian, Sumerian literature, Sumerian ...