Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilization in Ancient Sumer? Well, to do that you ... the other stuff we’ve invented. First up is city living - Because this is Uruk, the first ...

These findings were part of the state archives of the ancient Sumerian site while the city was under the control of the Akkad dynasty, which is the first known empire. "These are the spreadsheets ...