What was the greatest Sumerian city? A number of Sumerian city-states inhabited the area, including Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Lagash and Kish, but Uruk was a popular and prosperous trading center with six ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

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 ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

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 ...