Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC.

The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge.

All the latest game footage and images from Sid Meier's Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization Map Pack - Mesopotamia by Firaxis Games | 2010 2 / 4 3 / 4 4 / 4 2 / 4 3 / 4 4 / 4 ...

VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning. At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris ...