Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

Throughout history, ancient civilizations built major landmarks as tombs, tributes, and more. Many of those incredible works remain today and have become the focus of archaeological research as well ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

UR, Iraq (AP) — This is the place where civilization arose, where an ingenious race of people irrigated fields, forged agricultural tools and devised the written word. Some 6,000 years after this ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city dating back thousands of years – and newfound evidence suggests it may be the capital of a once-thriving civilization. The recent ...

In a recent investigation originally published by the Daily Mail and later echoed by Indy100, researchers at the ancient Sumerian site of Tell Fara revealed signs of a previously unknown, potentially ...

A joint Harvard-KRG survey in Erbil has identified five new archaeological sites, bringing the provincial total to 988. The ...