The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

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

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

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

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

You see, the Sumerians of Mesopotamia invented beer, and they drank a lot of it. Historians believe that beer was available and consumed by everyone in ancient Mesopotamian society. It was likely ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...