THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the ... Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

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.

It was likely consumed every day as Mesopotamians had a rudimentary understanding that beer was safer to drink than dirty water. So ubiquitous to daily life was beer that, in the texts Sumerians ...

2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides ...