But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

Researchers found living quarters of an ancient civilization, which disproved earlier theories that the site served solely as ...

First developed in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian city ... What is the Fertile Crescent? Where is it and what ancient civilizations lived there? What was life like in the world's oldest cities? And ...

Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Its position between ancient Egypt and the Indus River Valley ...

Hello Future people of the UK! Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilization in Ancient Sumer? Well, to do that you’ve got to travel back way back in time. Back before the Vikings ...