Matilda Street in Center Grove near Coconut Grove Elementary School, where the sidewalk and parking lanes have been closed to accommodate construction of the luxury mixed-use project Ziggurat. A ...

Restoration work is underway at the ancient Ziggurat of Ur, a monumental stepped temple in Iraq, using local materials and traditional methods to recreate the tower’s original Sumerian style.

Today, Eridu is often considered to be one of the oldest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, and perhaps even in the world. The ancient Sumerians also believed that Eridu was the first city in the ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero. The ancient clay tablet, designated Ni ...