Indeed, many scientists now believe that it was beer, not bread, that enticed Stone Age men to give up their nomadic hunting and gathering ways and settle down to plant grain, which ensured a constant ...

Sumer was humanity's first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy. The ancient ...

A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for the Sumerian ...

Recent claims by Iraqi transportation minister that ancient Sumerians owned an airport to “launch spaceships 7000 years ago” have been found to be inaccurate, Alarabiya.net reported. Minister Kazem ...

Q:What was the origin of keeping time in terms of 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour? A:Our current divisions of time can be traced to the ancient Sumerians in the fourth millennium B.C., ...

The Sumerians were among the most inventive of ancient civilisations - and laid the foundations for the more advanced societies that were to follow. They lived in the fertile valleys between the ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

Planet Nine is yet to be discovered but astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are convinced it is real. In 2015, Caltech professor Michael Brown proposed a hypothetical ...