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

rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh. They were written thousands of years ago on clay tablets. This Sumerian King ...

These Clean Slates were the most basic royal administrative acts of Mesopotamian rulers from Sumerian times onward. They were ...