A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet. Although the story is incomplete, due to the tablet’s fractured nature, there ...

These were the state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, in modern-day Tello, while the city was controlled by the Akkad dynasty from 2300 to 2150BC.

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B. C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus; through August 17, 2003 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Some of the 450 cuneiform tablets included in the seized lot are believed to hail from Irisagrig, a lost Sumerian city. Cuneiform, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia, is one the earliest ...

A Sumerian “sacred code” has been deciphered, revealing divinely inspired building instructions echoed in the Bible. Experts have been puzzled since unearthing the 4,000-year-old statue of a ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major ...

The box in which materials from Sir Leonard Woolley’s archaeological dig of the Sumerian city of Ur were found, in Bristol, England. Researchers at Bristol University discovered the box on top ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, one of the world’s oldest known cities, had found inscriptions referencing a temple, according to Friday, Feb. 17, news release from ...