New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

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The oldest known beer style dates back to ancient Sumeria, around 5,000 BCE. The Sumerians brewed a beer-like beverage called “kash”, made by fermenting loaves of barley bread in water. The result was ...

More than 3,000 years before the first hospital opened its doors, healers in the ancient world were already experimenting ...

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A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Chapter 9 continues from the end of the last instalment, and readers get more insight into the origins ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...