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

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 ...

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 that the tablet records the purchase of barley for brewing beer and was ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the ...