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.

UMM AL-AJARIB, Iraq — Iraqi archeologists are striving to bring to light what they describe as Mesopotamia’s largest “city of graves,” where the Sumerians buried their dead nearly 5,000 ...

Art: THE LEGACY OF SUMER; Art: THE LEGACY OF SUMER. 3 minute read. TIME. February 3, 1961 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari.

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.

Ancient Sumer civilisation began in around 5300BC and ended around 1940BC. Ancient Sumer lasted from the late Neolithic period to the early Bronze Age. The civilisation weakened when city rulers ...

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