Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Being close to the ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found ...

What did the Sumerians sell? Trade consisted of wool, cloth, jewelery, oil, and grains, among other products. In addition to its location at the crossroads of numerous trade routes, Babylon was a ...

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

The exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who founded the first cities, invented ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part of a general trend towards the formation of some of the world’s first states and ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...