After centuries of Akkadian conquest and Gutian occupation, a final Sumerian empire rose from the ruins of Mesopotamia, only ...

Archeology and decipherment -- History : heroes, kings, and ensi's -- Society : the Sumerian city -- Religion : theology, rite, and myth -- Literature : the Sumerian ...

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 ...

One of the many advantages of homeschooling is the opportunity to learn about things that are not normally taught in schools. For the subject of history, we mostly adhere to the Classical four year ...

Driving north out of Samawa towards Baghdad, a short way beyond the Euphrates bridge, a tarmac track leaves the main road, heading eastwards into a scarred, dun-coloured wasteland. Soon you enter the ...

The civilisation weakened when city rulers began fighting with each other. Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites ...

Located mostly in present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia was part of the so-called Fertile Crescent which bordered the Arabian Desert to the south and the mountains of Armenia to the north. On one end of it, ...

If asked to list the most important civilisations of the ancient world, many people of the west would mention Greece, Rome and Egypt. After that, if pressed, some might hazard a guess at Mesopotamia, ...

TREASURER Joe Hockey believes that somewhere out there may be child who will reach the age of 150, but history shows that is small potatoes. Given ancient legends of people living for centuries, even ...