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.

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?

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 ...

These famous riddles have puzzled readers from ancient times all the way to the present Riddles and brain teasers have ...

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 ...

It formed about a thousand years after Mesopotamia’s Sumer, at around the same time the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. The Caral people predate the more-famous Olmec civilization ...

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 ...

When exactly our species first began to joke and tease one another can’t be pinpointed exactly. Ancient Sumer’s examples tell us that this practice was likely commonplace thousands of years ago.