Sumer is one of history’s oldest civilizations. Long before the Egyptians built the pyramids, the Sumerians flourished in Mesopotamia. Between 4,500 and 1,900 B.C.E.. they invented one of the ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Learn more about life in Ancient Sumer in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 history guide. What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation? ... This Sumerian King List prism is from around 2004BC-1595BC.

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The Standard of Ur, dating to ca. 2500 B.C., is a foot-and-a-half-long box decorated with mosaics representing a Sumerian king (enthroned above) celebrating with his retinue in the top scene. The ...