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 ...

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 that the tablet records the purchase of barley for brewing beer and was ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

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 ...

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 ...