Articles related to "Sumerian Culture"

New research focuses on human sacrifice in the elite cemetery of Ur, in sourthern Iraq, ancestral home of Abraham, and one of the great centres of Sumerian culture

The Babylonian king Hammurabi develops one of the earliest written law codes in ancient Mesopotamia. The codex gives insights into Babylonian culture and ancient law.

The Sumerians spent a great deal of time developing many innovations that would forever change the course of civilization.

The Pleiadian culture from the Pleiades star system provides man with tools for spiritual evolution towards multidimensional wholeness.

Approaching the height of its power, Sumer was a confederacy (loose union) of city-states, often with one dominating at a given period of time until the rise of Akkad.

The Sumerians were the earliest known group of people to inhabit the Middle Eastern region known as Mesopotamia.

The destruction of the marshlands in Iraq threatens to annihilate the remnants of the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations of Iraq.