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.

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There is also Sciolino’s so-called “Wonder Woman,” a ruby-eyed, nine-and-a-half-inch alabaster statue of Ishtar—a fertility and warrior goddess from ancient Sumer, who “has it all.” ...

Moving from ancient Sumer, India, Greece, and Mesoamerica, through medieval caliphates and Eurasian empires into the present, Acharya shows that humanitarian values, economic interdependence, and ...

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 ...

“We tried to be largely chronological, which is to say, we began in ancient Sumer, and then we did Egypt, and then we did Greece and Rome, and then we went through the Dark Ages, the Middle ...

They used credit. Credit operated and overseen by the government, such as in Ancient Sumer. This system grew out of the informal “credits” people considered when sharing resources in more primitive ...

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 ...