In Mesopotamia. Around 3200 BCE, the Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia, developed cuneiform. This was a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

The oldest civilisation in the world is widely recognised as the Sumerian civilisation, which emerged in Mesopotamia, ...

Mesopotamia and Babylon are often confused. ... In about 4000 B.C. the Sumerians were the first known civilization to arise in the region, and are named after the ancient city of Sumer, ...

In fact, long before the Ancient Greeks built their citadels and set out on heroic expeditions across the Mediterranean, long before the glory of the pharaohs, the region of Mesopotamia, between the ...

On the north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has “a fine eye for country ...

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 ...

Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of Mesopotamian civilization. By around 3000 BCE, Uruk , a city near the mouth of the Euphrates ...

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that ...