According to the British Museum, early Mesopotamian farmers’ main crops were barley and wheat. But they also created gardens shaded by date palms, where they cultivated a wide variety of crops including beans, peas, lentils,…

While other cultures in the Middle East gathered wool and used it to weave fabric for clothing, the Sumerians were the first to do it on an industrial scale.

The very earliest libraries are believed to have been built around five thousand years ago in old iraq, with the first human efforts to organize collections of documents. the Nippur Library Sumerian Library in Southern Iraq and others These took the form of clay tablets in cuneiform script about an inch thick, in various shapes and sizes.

The Royal Game of Ur Iraq This is the oldest board game in the world, and one of the most beautiful. It was found in Ur and made before 2600 BCE. The rules were similar…

The earliest known written sources dealing with astronomy come from the regions of ancient cities of iraq Assyria and Babylonia located in what is now IraqAstronomical cuneiform tablets have been recovered from a number of…

Wheels are all around us. You use them every day, The Sumerians were also credited for the revolutionary invention of the wheel and the plough. They grew bumper crops of cereals, which they traded for…

To make up for a shortage of stones and timber for building houses and temples, the Sumerians created molds for making bricks out of clay, according to Kramer. While they weren’t the first to use…

Sitting in the Iraq Museum is a earthenware jar about the size of a man’s fist. Its existence could require history books throughout the world to be rewritten. According to most texts the “voltic pile,”…

in the third millennium, a king called Uruinimgina (ca. 2350 BCE; also known as Urukagina) commissioned a set of reforms that can be viewed as a precursor to the laws of Hammurabi. Scholars now hesitate…

The Sumerians figured out how to collect and channel the overflow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—and the rich silt that it contained—and then use it to water and fertilize their farm fields. They designed complex systems of canals, with dams constructed of reeds, palm trunks and mud whose gates could be opened or closed to regulate the flow of water.