Woolley’s discoveries are important because they tell us about ancient Sumerian life. Eventually, city-state rulers began fighting with each other and flooding meant that crops weren't growing ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Discover Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets at an Ancient Sumerian City in Iraq Archaeologists have ...

He stated that the Sumerians discovered this monetary unit before the Lydians printed money and produced coins, as well. What was the greatest Sumerian city? A number of Sumerian city-states inhabited ...

By an extraordinary stroke of luck, the previous year the museum had launched an excavation at just such a site: the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, in modern-day Tello, in southern Iraq.

Sumerian "Farmer's Almanac" The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural ...