Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

The ancient Sumerians created one of humanity’s first great civilizations. Their homeland in Mesopotamia, called Sumer, emerged roughly 6,000 years ago along the floodplains between the Tigris and ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Archaeological findings from the city-states that arose in ancient Mesopotamia offer sometimes surprisingly clear glimpses of ...

Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

The Sumerians were among the most inventive of ancient civilisations – and laid the foundations for the more advanced societies that were to follow. They lived in the fertile valleys between … ...

UMM AL-AJARIB, Iraq — Iraqi archeologists are striving to bring to light what they describe as Mesopotamia’s largest “city of graves,” where the Sumerians buried their dead nearly 5,000 ...

In addition, the Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system, which defines time and seconds, because the cuneiform writing they used had a way of writing numbers from 1 to 59.

Recent claims by Iraqi transportation minister that ancient Sumerians owned an airport to “launch spaceships 7000 years ago” have been found to be inaccurate, Alarabiya.net reported. Minister ...

PLANET NINE is believed to exist somewhere on the far fringes of the solar system, orbiting the Sun every 10,000 to 20,000 years – but were the Ancient Sumerians aware of Planet 9 under the name ...