A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

The Sumerian civilization was born around 3500 BCE in the fertile plains between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. What makes the Sumerian civilization so special is that it was ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, known as the oldest story in history, is thought to have been written in the early 2nd millennium BC, with the original being even older, in the 4th millennium BC. Journalist ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental challenge. Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who ...

Long before the rise of famous landmarks and empires that span the globe, a subtle revolution was taking place in a land that was to become the cradle of one of the world’s oldest civilizations.