Georg Gerster/Age Fotostock The city’s wealth was reflected in its monumental architecture. Uruk’s ziggurat, dedicated to the Sumerian sky god Anu, was completed by the late fourth millennium ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Buried in the Mesopotamian desert, undisturbed for over two millennia lay a hidden key ...

“Art of the First Cities ... created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who founded the first cities, invented writing, created monumental architecture and developed irrigation ...

They established one of the first known legal codes and administrative systems to govern their cities effectively. This included property laws and tax collection. Sumerian art included intricate ...

The toll which the passing of time took on the abandoned southern Mesopotamian cities is heavier than in the case of stone or fired brick architecture found in other regions of the ancient world where ...