New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

There are a great many things which we use every day, which are so normal that we take them for granted. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is professor emeritus of history and humanities at Moreno ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental challenge. Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who ...

Sumer was an ancient civilization located in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It is often considered the cradle of civilization due to its numerous innovations, including the ...

The Anunnaki are some of the most misunderstood figures from ancient Mesopotamian mythology. In this video, we explore who they really were according to Sumerian and Akkadian texts—and how modern ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...

The Sumerians created one of the earliest urban civilizations in human history. In southern Mesopotamia, they built powerful cities, developed cuneiform writing, organized complex governments, and ...

The movie tells the amazing saga of Anunnaki according with the ancient sumerian tablets Coming from Nibiru the Anunnaki are looking for Earths gold to solve the unbalanced atmosphere of their home ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...