Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called ... Ur, Uruk, Eridu, and Larsa were some of the largest. Each city-state had its own ruler. Cities were surrounded by walls to protect ...

The ancient city, which thrived for thousands of years ... which he refers to as the Annunaki, landed in ancient Sumer before recorded history, intending to mine gold for an unspecified reason.

First developed in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian city, cuneiform was eventually adopted by others, like the Akkadians and Babylonians for their own languages. UChicago scholars have worked to ...