The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

There was a silver and gold coinage used to pay armies in Asia Minor by the elites of Lydia and Ionia. How did the Sumerians civilization make money? Metals such as gold, silver, and other metals were ...

Sumerian rulers made sure that these strains ... The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization Has Not Buccellati sees the transformation of production, economic control ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China to ...

Hello Future people of the UK! Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilization in Ancient Sumer? Well, to do that you’ve got to travel back way back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China ...