Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of ...

The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia ... In the following more than 1,000 years, it achieved remarkable accomplishments in politics, religion, art, science and technology, law and ...

They date back to the Akkad period (2300BC-2150BC), which, Rey tells The Art Newspaper ... these finds demonstrate how the Akkadians managed a Sumerian city, especially one located on the frontier ...

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An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...

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Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...