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

Find of the Day: Ancient Sumerian Music One of the many advantages of homeschooling is the opportunity to learn about things that are not normally taught in schools.

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of Sumer was driven by the dynamic interplay of ...

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

Iraq intends to open a tourism town dedicated to one of Mesopotamia’s oldest civilisations, the Sumerians. Two years after it was launched, most of the work on a tourism project near the Sumerian Ur ...

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 ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

Archaeologists unearth ancient Sumerian riverboat in Iraq The bitumen-coated boat once plied the waterways around one of the world’s first cities.

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 ...