This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

He explains their writing system, using a reed to scratch ... Pupils could compare schools in Ancient Sumer with schools today - what elements are similar and what elements are different?

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place ... Teachers could be very strict and only boys were allowed to attend. The wheel, writing, and the 60 minute clock are all thought to have ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC.

A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq ... including some of the earliest known examples of writing. They offer a rare insight into an area of the world well-known for its math education ...

The careful documentation of hundreds of thousands of inscriptions helped scholars to unravel the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing system. First developed in Sumer, an ancient ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia ... B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known ...