Although the Sumerians invented cities ... and novel techniques in metallurgy. Valley of the Kings. The tombs of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs near the West Bank of the Nile River (Credit: Anton ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of ... During the third millennium B.C.E., Sumerians built Girsu, a “megacity ...

Ancient metallurgy has long provided critical insights into the technological and cultural evolution of past societies. In recent years, isotope analysis has emerged as a powerful tool in ...

Nibiru was widely known to the ancient Sumerians – an advanced civilisation that thrived until the Middle Bronze Age. According to the Russian-American author of The 12th Planet, Nibiru orbits ...

Scientists in the United States and Canada are reporting the first scientific evidence that ancient civilizations ... Article: "A Millennium of Metallurgy Recorded by Lake Sediments from Morococha ...

Ancient Sumerians invented a “civilisation-saving” water channel 4,000 years ago, a British Museum dig has revealed. Archaeologists working at the ruined city of Girsu in Iraq have discovered the true ...

Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia, an ancient region centered in modern-day Iraq and the surrounding regions, more than 5,000 years ago, cuneiform is not a language in itself.