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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

A scribe who does not know Sumerian, what kind of scribe is he? The motto of this text is actually a quotation from a proverb collection and highlights the importance of the knowledge of Sumerian for ...

The ancient Sumerians developed this writing system more than 5,000 years ago. Tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets still await translation. It’s not a language. It’s not an alphabet, either, ...

Miguel Civil, the world’s leading expert in the earliest known written language, died on Jan. 13 at age 92. The scholar at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute was described as understanding ...