This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

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 ...

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 exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who founded the first cities, invented ...

In the larger of his two new books he discusses in a fresh and interesting way the origin of civilisation and the history of its development in Egypt, Crete, Sumer, and Mesopotamia, with brief but ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

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