The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow shape with two upright arms joined by a crossbar, and the ...

This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved ...

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 ...

Sumerian "Farmer's Almanac" The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural ...

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

There are also images that look like depictions of ancient Sumerian figures: the tattooed head of a slave and a woman with bare breasts. Other signs depict animals and plants from the agricultural ...

By 2150BC it was enjoying a “golden age” under the priest-ruler Gudea, who ancient Sumerian texts declare was inspired in a dream to build a vast temple to the warrior god and Girsu’s patron ...

Buckle up your chariots and grab your clay tablets because we’re diving into the ancient world with a collection of hilarious ...

As an architectural designer and researcher studying urban resilience, I have examined many of the techniques and the lessons these ancient civilizations ... the past. The Sumerians lived about ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.—a ...