A series of strong Amorite kings—including King Hammurabi, famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most ...

But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

It shows the king of Ur as a warrior on one side and him enjoying a banquet on the other. Woolley’s discoveries are important because they tell us about ancient Sumerian life. Eventually ...

The series will include various game types from all over the world: ancient Mesopotamia ... found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that The Royal Game of Ur was ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

Sumerian "Farmer's Almanac" The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE ... The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur. Each lyre had a different animal head protruding from ...