The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Sir — The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel is an unpardonable offence. Basel Adra, one of the directors of ...

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The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

With 'The Jews,' 'Daily Show' veteran Rob Kutner graduates from trying to please one curmudgeonly Jew to 14 million of them.

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 ...

Uruk, 5,500 years ago. The Sumerian city is a splendid sight, the largest and richest human settlement the world has ever seen. And it is distinctively urban, with tens of thousands of inhabitants ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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 ...

Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2016, 600 pp., $35.00 (cloth). A five-year 3.78 percent loan between two businessmen in 1796 may not seem remarkable, but it turns out that’s 1796 ...