What was the greatest Sumerian city? A number of Sumerian city-states inhabited the area, including Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Lagash and Kish, but Uruk was a popular and prosperous trading center with six ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Discover Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets at an Ancient Sumerian City in Iraq Archaeologists have ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...

Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

By an extraordinary stroke of luck, the previous year the museum had launched an excavation at just such a site: the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, in modern-day Tello, in southern Iraq.

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