Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

A Sumerian tablet bears a religious text. It was created using cuneiform, the world’s first writing system. Sumerian cuneiform spread across much of the Bronze Age Middle East.

The Sumerian civilisation was the world’s first, inventing writing, numerical systems, bureaucracy and the state, and texts from the 3rd millennium BC provide details of a particularly cultured ...

And two Sumerian texts from the late third millennium BCE contain a list of monster kin eerily similar to those attributed to Tiamat. And how many were there? 11.

The Sumerian Game is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was developed as part of a joint research project between the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of ...

In Sumerian texts, the word ušum-gal is often used as a metaphor for a lion or in conjunction with lions as part of a royal fearsome trait, Crisostomo continues.

The Sumerians, Maya and other ancient cultures created texts that have lasted hundreds and even thousands of years. Here's what they can teach us about crafting an immortal message.

Simple, text-based, and originally designed for primary schools, The Sumerian Game is widely considered the first narrative strategy game in history, and one of the earliest examples of the genre ...