Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

They found an ancient temple instead.) Cities of SumerIn the third millennium B.C. at least a dozen large independent city-states existed within the territory of Sumer. These included Kish ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called ... Ur, Uruk, Eridu, and Larsa were some of the largest. Each city-state had its own ruler. Cities were surrounded by walls to protect ...

The ancient city, which thrived for thousands of years ... which he refers to as the Annunaki, landed in ancient Sumer before recorded history, intending to mine gold for an unspecified reason.

Iraq’s first regime was the ancient state of Sumer. The Sumerians ... Nine in every 10 Sumerians lived in a city. All of them, Mr. Bull writes, lived on a “mythological treadmill.” ...

An Iraqi-German team recently excavated the remnants of an ancient boat that was exposed by erosion in 2018 near the Sumerian city of Uruk in southern Iraq. The boat, which measures 23 feet long ...