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 ...

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 ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia ... B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known ...