Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

Reprint from the Smithsonian report for 1959. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!926647~!0#focus ...

The lion lunges forward, its muscular body captured in the massive stone relief, its claws and canines bared with menacing realism. The great king, his bow drawn tight, stands poised to release his ...

Los Angeles - Historians using the modern language of computers are assembling a virtual library of the earliest known written documents: clay tablets inscribed more than 4 000 years ago. Begun in ...