Sumer was humanity's first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy. The ancient ...

A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for the Sumerian ...

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 years ago. The ...

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This article contains spoilers for Dandadan's manga. Dandadan has an impressive cast of characters, yet, even in such a massive roster, none ever feel neglected. One of the best additions to the main ...

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 Kazem ...

Planet Nine is yet to be discovered but astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are convinced it is real. In 2015, Caltech professor Michael Brown proposed a hypothetical ...

The game focuses on the dawn of cities in Mesopotamia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here's a city builder for you, but like, ...