Bloomsbury Auctions/BNPSThis 5,000-year-old tablet depicting beer-making and a signed sales transaction was sold for $230,000. A wealthy American collector purchased an ancient Sumerian tablet for ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Every story about descent starts with a pull, something that draws you downward, whether you’re ready or not. In Inanna’s case, it was her sister Ereshkigal, queen of the underworld. Ereshkigal wasn’t ...

Real-time tactical stealth adventure game Sumerian Six will launch for PC via Steam on September 2, publisher Devolver Digital and developer Artificer announced.

Sumerian Six is a strategy video game developed by Artificer and published by Devolver Digital. About Sumerian Six follows the Enigma Squad, a team of scientist commandos composed of the world&#821… ...

Some jokes are like a fine wine and age well with time; others get rather lost in translation as the centuries pass. One joke, etched in the ancient cuneiform writing of the Sumerian people, stands as ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.

Modern marines have tested out ancient Greek body armor in an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age combat and found it to be battle-worthy. The experiment, for a study published in the open-access ...

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.