A 4,000-year-old Sumerian proverb about a dog that walks into a tavern has left scholars and thousands of online commenters scratching their heads. The joke’s meaning has been lost, but finding ...

Cue the chemistry Sumerian written history goes back to the 27th century B.C. and more or less ends a millennium later when the civilization collapsed after an invasion by the Elamites.

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).

The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies has invited Dr Jeremy Black, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, to deliver a series of lectures on Akkadian and Sumerian literature between ...