Sumer (/ ˈsuːmər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages …

Oct 9, 2019 · The Sumerians were responsible for many of the most important innovations, inventions, and concepts taken for granted in the present day. They essentially “invented” time by dividing day …

Sep 16, 2025 · The Sumerians were the world’s first great civilization, the pioneers who carved cities out of the Mesopotamian plain and lit the flame of culture, science, and storytelling that still burns today.

Dec 7, 2017 · Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Known for their innovations in language, …

Dec 20, 2025 · Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and …

The Sumerians settled in Lower Mesopotamia, founding over 30 cities, including Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Kish, and Umma. During this period, priests were the political elite of the city-states, and temples served …

Sumerians believed in anthropomorphic polytheism, or of many gods in human form that were specific to each city-state. Sumerians invented or perfected many forms of technology, including the wheel, …

The Sumerians were among the first formal astronomers, correctly formulating a heliocentric view of the solar system, to which they assigned five planets (all that can be seen with the naked eye).

Jan 2, 2023 · Hugging the shores of the bountiful Euphrates and Tigris Rivers the Sumerians built humanity's first cities and towns. Leaping out of the Stone Age and into the Bronze, the people that …

The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization …