The ancient clay tablet from 2400 BCE was found in an ancient Mesopotamian city and revealed an unknown Sumerian mythology in ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.

The word is said to be the earliest known word for dragon and is found in Sumerian, the oldest written language used by humans. It is made from the terms "ušum" ("snake") and "gal" (large).