What was the greatest Sumerian city? A number of Sumerian city-states inhabited the area, including Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Lagash and Kish, but Uruk was a popular and prosperous trading center with six ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

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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 ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

Uruk, 5,500 years ago. The Sumerian city is a splendid sight, the largest and richest human settlement the world has ever seen. And it is distinctively urban, with tens of thousands of inhabitants ...

The civilisation weakened when city rulers began fighting with each other. Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought.