But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

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 ...

First developed in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian city ... What is the Fertile Crescent? Where is it and what ancient civilizations lived there? What was life like in the world's oldest cities? And ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Its position between ancient Egypt and the Indus River Valley ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

but there are techniques that can be adapted to new designs for living better in hotter and drier climates and for relying less on constant summer air conditioning. These ancient civilizations can ...