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

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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer?

These famous riddles have puzzled readers from ancient times all the way to the present Riddles and brain teasers have fascinated people for centuries, challenging us to think in new ways and make ...

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 museum's website highlights that the ongoing digitization of its Babylonian cuneiform tablets is helping preserve these ancient artifacts. Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford ...

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing Cuccu; Groweth sed and bloweth med, and springth the wude nu, Sing Cuccu. . . . Up to last week Sumer is icumen in had been regarded by music historians as both the ...