Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

It offers a comprehensive examination of its social development and cultural life during the Sumerian era, highlights key ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...

Sir — Sumerians are credited with some of the most important inventions that shaped the course of all of humanity. These include writing, the plough, the chariot and hydraulic engineering, am­ong ...

if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...