Sumer was humanity's first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy. The ancient ...

Around 6,000 years ago, the earliest major urban civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, establishing important foundations for ...

For thousands of years, a mysterious Sumerian tablet may have preserved knowledge of a planet modern astronomy still ...

The Sumerians, Maya and other ancient cultures created texts that have lasted hundreds and even thousands of years. Here's what they can teach us about crafting an immortal message. More than 2,000 ...

A few months ago someone asked me (via email) which populations I would love to get typed (genetically that is). There is one population which did not come to mind at the time: the Sumerians. Why?

Detail of building a in area 1, with room 23 identified as a bitumen workshop. Credit: V. Caruso et al. 2026 / Romano and D'Agostino, 2019 Scientists analyzed 59 samples from the site of Abu Tbeirah, ...

Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilization, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...