Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

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 ...