Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

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 ...

Sebastian Fink from the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck ...

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 ...