Eridu, located in southern Iraq in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, is the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian cities, as noted in the Sumerian ... a precise timeline for its construction ...

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

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Being close to the ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British Museum ...