The world’s first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet. Although the story is incomplete, due to the tablet’s fractured nature, there ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu, in southeastern Iraq. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

There are a great many things which we use every day, which are so normal that we take them for granted. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is professor emeritus of history and humanities at Moreno ...