LONDON (AP) — Amazing what you can find when you do a good clean out. Bristol University in Britain learned this firsthand when researchers discovered a box containing materials from archaeologist Sir ...

The 4,500-year-old palace was uncovered by a team led by Dr. Sebastien Rey of the British Museum. This palace is thought to hold the key to learning more about one of the earliest known civilizations, ...

When historians look back into time to name the first civilized people, they usually pick the Sumerians, who built imposing cities, including Abraham’s Ur of the Chaldees, in southern Mesopotamia ...

Near the present-day city of Basra in Iraq, and about 12 kilometers southwest of the site of ancient Ur, is the site of Eridu (Eridug in Sumerian), the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian ...

An archeological site at Girsu, in modern-day south-central Iraq, a major city in the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, has been unearthed revealing a palace and a temple that date back over ...

The Sumerians were among the most inventive of ancient civilisations – and laid the foundations for the more advanced societies that were to follow. They lived in the fertile valleys between the ...

Sumeria cuts right through the heart of modern-day Iraq, as far south as the Persian Gulf, where it connects to the Indian Ocean. It was one of the first regions where mankind's new itch to control ...

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