They’ll tell you what life was like here, and how, eventually, our crops will dry out and the population will shrink, spelling the end of the Sumerian Empire. All this? Well, it’ll be History.

Well, it’ll be history. 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 ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

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 ...