Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation? Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Learn about what life was like in this civilisation. When was Ancient Sumer?

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third millennium ...