A new study reveals ancient Sumerians credited gods (not humans) with inventing writing, challenging decades of scholarly ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sumerian Blood: Gilgamesh against the Gods The deep sands of the desert are blend with the blood of Sumerian who fought in the battle that shaped the fate ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 ...

Thousands of years before modern religion, the people of Sumer worshipped a powerful deity they called the "Mother of All Kings." Ninhursag was the architect of life itself, a goddess of fertility ...

An aerial view of the Sumerian temple. Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to Ningirsu, the Mesopotamian god of springtime thunder, the ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet. Although the story is incomplete, due to the tablet’s fractured nature, there ...