Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called ... They were tall so that people could be closer to the gods in the sky. Image caption, A restored Ziggurat in the ancient city of Ur.

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture, for ...