Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

Researchers have delved into the ancient past to discover when romantic kissing likely originated and the pathogens, such as the herpes simplex virus, that have followed the practice from then until ...

The world’s first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient ...

For decades, reconstructing the diet of the ancient civilizations that inhabited southern Mesopotamia has been an almost ...

Study of tooth enamel reveals that the Sumerians did not eat fish despite living by the sea, challenging what we thought ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sumerian code has been deciphered, revealing "divinely inspired" building instructions A Sumerian “sacred code” has been ...