Sumerian kings regained control around the 21st century B.C., in a period historians call the Third Dynasty of Ur. Its founder, Ur-Nammu, was a great general, reformer, and innovator. He is ...

The “Zggurat of Ur” is the best example of showcasing how religious the Sumerians were. A ziggurat is a stepped pyramid with several receding terraces. This specific ziggurat was built by King ...

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

For decades, paleontologists have agonized over a strange Sumerian statue found in central Iraq. The figurine depicts a mammal that some researchers suspect could be a suriving specimen of the ...

But because of the ongoing violence, Entemena, the oldest known sculpture of a Sumerian King in existence, cannot be exhibited. In fact, nobody is quite sure when the statue, which is some 4,400 ...

TELL AL MUQAYYAR, Iraq—Hundreds of years before Abraham of Bible and Quran fame trod here, the desert people who lived in the green Mesopotamia ... under king Ur Nammu, who launched a ...

UR, Iraq — As the world mourns the looting of invaluable antiquities from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, farther south, curator Dhief Muhsen calmly recounted how he remained at his post ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has returned an ancient Sumerian copper alloy statute from the third millennium BC to authorities in Iraq. The museum acquired the ancient statue—which ...

The museum said its enhanced effort to study the provenance of items in its collection had turned up evidence that the statue of a Sumerian man was the property of Iraq. By Graham Bowley The ...