The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...
Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.
He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.
Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were ... proto-cuneiform signs in early writings about the trade of farming produce and textiles.