Sebastian Fink from the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck ...

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

In the following more than 1,000 years, it achieved remarkable accomplishments in politics, religion ... Sumerian relics. Through this multifaceted approach, the book vividly showcases the ancient ...