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

Their results indicated it's most similar to Sumerian cuneiform ... Written from right to left, the script is unlike any other ancient scripts; while the proto-Elamites appear to have borrowed ...

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow shape with two upright arms joined by a crossbar, and the ...

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 ...