The Sumerian civilisation was the world’s first, inventing writing, numerical systems, bureaucracy and the state, and texts ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.

Chinese writing has a history of some three thousand five hundred years. It is not as old as Sumerian or Egyptian writing; there is no certain evidence, however, that the invention of writing in China ...

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that ...

Naturally, it was these civilizations that invented the first writing systems known to history. The Sumerian and Egyptian Civilizations are considered to be the first civilizations, and both ...

Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that ... and became one of the first people to start writing. Paper doesn’t exist yet, but we use clay ...

The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...

because people were imbibing alcohol long before they invented writing. Zarnkow’s Sumerian beer is very far from the oldest. Chemical analysis recently showed that the Chinese were making a kind ...

In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by Sumerian Six. I think part of that is due to it dialing down its stealth elements and concentrating on the strategy ones. Think of it as an incredibly violent ...

The limited edition of ten pieces celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Meisterstück writing instrument with a tribute to ...