That is why the first writing man we know of came from Sumer. The written language did not create the civilization, it was the civilization that created the written language, which in turn further ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Civilization first appeared in the Middle ... purposes and became the written representation of the Sumerian language. It was written in clay using a reed stylus. The need for faster writing ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China ...

The prisms are an important record of the Sumerian language. They are believed to be from around 1800BC. They are now part of the Ashmolean museum's collection in Oxford. In the 1920s Sir Leonard ...