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 ...

He stated that the Sumerians discovered this monetary unit before the Lydians printed money and produced coins, as well. What was the greatest Sumerian city? A number of Sumerian city-states inhabited ...

But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

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 ...

A: Sumer city of country Iraq lies on the geographical coordinates of 32° 9' 20" N, 44° 59' 2" E.

First developed in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian city, cuneiform was eventually adopted by others, like the Akkadians and Babylonians for their own languages. UChicago scholars have worked to ...

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 ...