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.

“It is the largest graveyard of Sumer. Nowhere in ancient Iraq have we come across ... Sumerians in the same manner the present-day holy city of Najaf is to Muslim Shiites.

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

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 ...

But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

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.