Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

It is another Sumerian invention to use levees and canals to irrigate. What did Sumerians build around their cities? A wall and moat were built around Sumerian cities as a means of defense. Three ...

Cities began to struggle ... Woolley’s discoveries are important because they tell us about ancient Sumerian life. Eventually, city-state rulers began fighting with each other and flooding ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... but it was one of the independent Sumerian cities that were ...

Criterion (v): The remains of the ancient cities of Uruk, Ur and Eridu, today in the desert but originally situated ... The three archaeological ensembles included in the property offer a ...

“Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya ...