Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

The civilization was contemporary with the ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Sumerian civilizations, although researchers say Caral developed in complete isolation. "The finding reinforces the idea ...

wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer, portraying a dark time in the ... documenting 10,000 years of civilization that gave the world writing, mathematics and a host of technologies—from paved roads ...

Chinese and Sumerian civilizations - though unlike these, researchers say it developed in complete isolation. Aspero, the area in the Caral site where the tomb was found, was formerly used as a ...