Sumerian civilization and its achievements would be ... Archaeologists recovered troves of clay tablets as well as works of art. A map of the ancient city of Nippur, created around 1500 B.C ...

UMM AL-AJARIB, Iraq — Iraqi archeologists are striving to bring to light what they describe as Mesopotamia’s largest “city of graves,” where the Sumerians buried their dead nearly 5,000 ...

Paul Getty Trust and Museum. Ancient Sumer or Sumerian civilization thrived in modern-day southern Iraq from around 4000 to 2000 B.C., according to Britannica. Sumer is credited with numerous ...