The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

The ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform, shown here on a clay tablet documenting barley rations issued monthly to adults and children. The language may have died out as a result of a 200-year drought ...

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

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The foundations of human civilization first flowered in the fertile lands between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Known today as Sumer, this ground-breaking culture gave birth to not only the first ...

In a recent investigation originally published by the Daily Mail and later echoed by Indy100, researchers at the ancient ...

What did Sumerian civilization create? Science of the Sumerians Early in their history, they built a system of ditches to drain floodwaters, were the inventors of irrigation by utilizing the power of ...

“Two of the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed from (the UNESCO-registered) Tchogha Zanbil, and they date from the Elamite era,” ILNA quoted Arak’s provincial tourism chief as saying on Thursday.