which could indicate religious significance. These ancient texts could provide new insights into the history, society, and culture of this poorly known area, northern Mesopotamia, during the ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...