[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] From a historical and archaeological perspective, Gong's book meticulously traces the rise and fall of the Sumerian civilization. It offers a comprehensive ...

Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.

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 ...

Then individual chapters of varying length examine military medical practice and organization among the Sumerians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Israelites, Persians, Indians, Greeks, Romans (among whom it ...