The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

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.

The woman has accused Gaiman of sexual assault, battery and inflicting emotional distress. The Microsoft co-founder says he enjoys giving away his fortune and it won't leave his kids poor. The ...

Verghese said that if you think about it, while human beings have been around for perhaps a million plus years, the first recorded writing script, the Sumerian script on Cuneiform tablets from ...

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...

Dongbei, as China’s cold and gritty north-east is known, has traditionally been more famous for its economic struggles than for its cultural exports. Once booming under Mao because of its coal ...

Writer Shan Xiaohua was mediating with her pen in hand in a room. Above her thin back, a banner saying "Literature lights the heart" was particularly eye-catching. Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of ...

An undergraduate degree in English Literature or a related subject is a pre-requisite for this programme, and a UK Master's degree in a relevant discipline, or an overseas qualification of an ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that ...

The Microsoft co-founder says he enjoys giving away his fortune and it won't leave his kids poor. The festival is running until Sunday evening, across several cultural venues. The county where the ...

The English Literature department at Boise State University prepares students for a variety of futures by developing skills of critical inquiry, analytical reasoning, and oral and written ...