This royal headgear was one of the artifacts found in the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, and the decorations identified ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago.

The parchment codex which contains Sumer Is Icumin In was possibly commissioned from Oxford booksellers by the author of the note on page 160v: "Ord.li. W. de. Wint," who is often identified as ...

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.

On the north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has “a fine eye for country ...