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 city-state of Ur emerged as an important center of commerce and Sumerian culture circa 2700 b.c.) The prize piece is the Standard of Ur (below), a trapezoidal box, 18-1/2 inches long by 8 ...

culture, and far-reaching global impact of Sumerian civilization. The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia, with their civilization emerging around 3000 BC, and became regarded as one ...

Ancient Egyptians were ruled by a leader called a pharaoh and worshipped many different gods. Today, we can still see traces of this culture in archaeological sites and museums all over the world ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near ... alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...