In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which ... expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

He explains their writing system, using a reed to scratch marks ... We discover some of the reasons why the Sumer eventually died out. This clip is from the series Lost Lands.