Although many of the more than 4,000 years old cuneiform texts contain records of deliveries of emmer, barley and malt to breweries, as well as documentation of the activities, there is hardly any ...

Here’s how it works. But evidence uncovered in the past few decades indicates that the Sumerians have a few contenders, including ancient Egypt, for the title of "oldest civilization." ...

The use of 60 began with the Sumerians who used different number systems. While you and I write numbers using base 10, or “decimal” this civilization used base 12 ("duodecimal") and base 60 ...

During the third millennium B.C.E., Sumerians built Girsu, a “megacity,” and dedicated it to the deity Ningirsu, according to the Girsu Project—a collaborative research project by the ...

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The Sumerians, Maya and other ancient cultures created texts that have lasted hundreds and even thousands of years. Here's what they can teach us about crafting an immortal message. More than ...

During the third millennium B.C.E., Sumerians built Girsu, a “megacity,” and dedicated it to the deity Ningirsu, according to the Girsu Project—a collaborative research project by the ...

Fish and animal bones were found in the bowls, alongside evidence of beer drinking, which was widespread among the Sumerians. "So we've got the refrigerator, we've got the hundreds of vessels ...

The ancient Sumerians, who lived in what is now central Iraq, invented civilisation as we know it. It was the Sumerians who constructed the first cities and invented farming. They refined the ...