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 ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 ...

The Sumerian King List, as preserved by Berossus, includes rulers with impossibly long reigns—some said to rule before a ...

Originally published under title: From the tablets of Sumer: Indian Hills, Colo. : Falcon's Wing Press, 1956. siris_sil_431273 ...

A new interdisciplinary study shows that the rise of the first urban civilization was not solely a product of human ingenuity, but a complex response to coastal dynamics and the predictable rhythms of ...

Appendices: I. Recent explorations in Turkestan in their relation to the Sumerian problem. II. A chronological list of the kings and rulers of Sumer and Akkad.