Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

Shifting tides along the coast of the ancient region called Mesopotamia might have spurred the rise of the world’s oldest ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our ...

The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia, with their civilization emerging around 3000 BC, and became regarded as one of the cradles of human civilization.

Discover the top 10 oldest civilizations in the world, including Sumerian, Egyptian, and Indus Valley. Explore their ...

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of Mesopotamian civilization. By around 3000 BCE, Uruk , a city near the mouth of the Euphrates ...

Glorious finds in the area revealed the richness and complexity of this ancient culture and allowed scholars to see how Sumerian influences cascaded through the civilizations that followed it.

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...